My Nostr predictions for 2025
Exactly one year ago I published my Nostr predictions for 2024. Some came true, but most were, shall we say, aspirational, and, if we want to be generous, directionally correct. Happy to continue in the same vein and go out on a limb for 2025. Here we go, ordered by likelihood of coming true:
1. Primal will become much, MUCH better. Primal 3.0 will be a bigger leap forward than Primal 2.0 was. We will surprise everyone by the features, speed, level of polish, and ease of use.
2. Many other Nostr clients will impress by their progress in a relatively short time frame. If I had to pick one, I have a really good feeling about Highlighter.
3. Way more bitcoiners will join Nostr. While we currently only have a small subset of bitcoin enjoyers on Nostr, the new features and unique content will make Nostr irresistible to anyone interested in bitcoin.
4. Bitcoin-adjacent communities will start to discover and join Nostr. This will include health & wellness, financial twitter, human rights, libertarians, and other communities. As a result, the network will grow and become more formidable.
5. Spammers gonna spam. With the growth of the network, spammers will return in force. They will be sophisticated and relentless, putting all of our spam mitigation services to the test.
6. The Blossom protocol will make media hosting on Nostr much more robust and resistant to censorship.
7. Long form content will start to hit its stride on Nostr. This includes textual long form content (blogs, essays, articles, etc.) as well as long form video content.
8. Multiple Nostr projects will find effective and ethical ways to monetize, marking a watershed moment for the protocol. We will witness the formation of the first cohort of real businesses on Nostr, signaling the inevitable changing of the guard and the eventual extinction of the Legacy Web.
9. Nostr will experience a glimpse of what a ‘suddenly’ mainstream adoption moment looks like.
10. By the end of the year, everyone - even the haters - will realize that Nostr is going to win.
11. nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx will accuse me of not being bullish enough.
One thing is certain: we will keep pushing until we will this thing into existence. 🤝
Anyhow, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Pura Vida, and Peace and Love to you all! ♥️☀️
Merry Christmas! Can’t wait to see what ships in 2025 🚀
Two years ago today, I was overseas for Christmas with my wife’s family, jet-lagged and awake at 3:30am, when our friend nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 shared a link to Nostr with plebs on the Twitter #stackchain.
That day, I began to see the world in purple 💜
I downloaded a very early version of Damus. Not only had nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s not yet invented zaps (we simply pasted Lightning invoices, racing each other to pay it the fastest), but images wouldn’t even render in a client. (Again, you’d post a link and then leave the client to view the image in a browser). A few screenshots below capture the early days of Damus 🤙
It’s been an awe-inspiring heart-warming two years. I have learned so much, made new friends, submitted my first PR, and zapped the hell out of anything that moves. It’s been amazing to see the speed and quality of development by our many developers, and I continue being blown away by everyone’s contributions here. It’s also been demonstrated that most people, when given the opportunity to socialize in an online space that hasn’t been conditioned by typical toxic incentive structures, are genuinely decent, thoughtful, well-meaning people, even when they disagree. I always believed this, but Twitter can make you doubt it sometimes…
Nostr has come so far, so fast, from a handful of bare-bones clients to dozens or hundreds of apps, clients, projects, integrations, events, meetups, and more. It’s downright impressive.
Spending time on this protocol, hanging out with you all, being part of this movement, has enriched and expanded my life in a way I never expected, but feel so grateful to have found.
Screenshots below to show some old nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 styling, including my profile-picture-less self trying to figure out a Lightning address, hitting the perfect follower count (nice), a comparison of privacy priorities between Damus and Twitter, and evidence of my consistently positive sentiment toward Nostr.
Thank you, Nostriches. Happy Christmas Eve 🎄 and Pura Vida 🤙
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