One way to solve the recurring payments on lightning problem:

Instead of auto-charging, just show a feed of invoices you’ve been “subscribed” to. Each time a payment is due, the person can evaluate where they want to continue supporting that thing.

The challenge will be in how to nudge people to pay without being annoying. I think that’s where social gamification can help. I have some ideas.

1 or 2?

Do block lists sync between different nostr clients?

Has anyone built a nostr search engine yet?

Updated the resources page with a short section on zaps. ⚡

The "Thank me later " zombies have arrived to nostr.

something fun id like to try on honeyroad.store is doing giftcards for my honey using chaumian ecash tokens (cashu ig)

When u gonna remove that filthy bear from profile pic?

mr. bear, ser, can you pleas tell the grin lil shet and the whole crew to cum over hear, it's much moar fun

In a bubble tea shop. They're out of purple and I'm quite undecided what flavor to pick.

has anyone found any other minigames similar to @cowdel and #[0]

Honest break down of where things are today:

#1 nostr 🔮 has a user base that is accessible from any nostr client. Currently that user base is approx 10k DAU of high quality pubkey ie pfp, banner, completed NIP-05.

There are approx 100k DAU of all pubkeys. This has happened organically. No paid downloads, not even any ads. Nostr has had quite a bit of attention and this has spiked awareness several times. 😁

#2 Content, naturally we spend a lot of time talking about nostr, protocols, Bitcoin, Twitter, this is great and these subjects are well served here but whilst we are all very enthusiastic about this stuff, we should also engage broader subjects too. People love travel, clothes, food, etc. Don’t let other subjects whither before they get established.🤔

#3 Zaps ⚡️, the integration of money into the network is a game changer and a huge achievement by everyone involved. The potential here is almost unlimited… if the community grows. But we have to collectively earn that community growth, all of us, together.😏🙂

What can those of us already here do?

#A we should make a big effort as a community to help new people landing in a chaotic Global feed to navigate the showers, find some follows and crucially; set up their pubkey. By setting up their pubkey they are making a small investment of time and closing the “I feel like an outsider” gap. 🥹

#B Try creating a new pubkey today and see what the experience is like for a new person coming over without the signal tuned. It can be difficult to navigate the rawness of Global and find active engaging people. Let’s be mindful that it’s very early for nostr, setting up a pubkey and tuning signal is a learning curve and requires effort, I try and spend some time each day fishing people out of global and helping them. 🎣

#C New users are the fuel, as nostr has passed various milestones new friction has emerged that we should seek to address. For new pubkeys there is a lot of spam, this chokes onboarding and poses a threat to the network. Nostr needs growth and to achieve that we must overcome onboarding, that means:

i) Pubkey set up, pfp, banner, bio, NIP-05

ii) Spam filtering, make this easy / default

iii) Signal tuning, aka discovery 📡

It’s important to try out each client as a new pubkey and see what the experience is like, whichever has the nicest experience is likely to be the most used client after a year.

I feel like there is a valley of death to cross where the network isn’t quite large enough to support some things but needs some things to attract more users. Let’s be honest about this and continue working for it.

… and keep the zaps ⚡️ flowing that’s basically the community bootstrapping itself to the world 🌎

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what types of new business models are going to be enabled by the Nostr protocol.

Anyone else out there thinking about this?

We might add a separate paid one later, let’s see how spam goes