I just thought of something a few days ago. Ethereum is not a real currency, it's an attack on our finances and Bitcoin. Likewise the vegan diet is not a real diet, it's an attack on our health and the carnivore diet.
Here's the connection I'm making... When you haven't researched Bitcoin or any of the cryptocurrencies, it all looks too similar. So the uninformed and those who don't care as much believe Bitcoin to be a scam.
When you haven't done your research and you're still on something like the standard American diet, all the diets seem ridiculous. It seems too hardcore to eliminate down. And if you're looking at vegans, you realize that not only is something off about them emotionally but also physically. So you believe that if people do any kind of elimination diet, that must lead to problems. Therefore a "varied and balanced" diet is better, also known as the SAD or "just eating whatever you want to eat." Though there is an advantage to just eating whatever you want which could help lead to a carnivore diet. I digress...
A vegan diet is an elimination diet. You eliminate everything but vegetables. It's an attack on the carnivore diet which is also an elimination diet. The difference is that carnivore is the logical conclusion to the elimination process for the sake of health and the vegan diet is elimination in the name of "compassion, morals, and mother nature."
It's the same sort of attack and it's probably been playing out for longer than Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. It's an absolutely genius attack strategy that is almost guaranteed to fool a great amount of people.
If we're to talk about how people will eventually come around to Bitcoin, I'd suggest to look at the world of diet and ask if everyone eventually comes around to the carnivore diet. It's just not always the case. It's also not so obvious and discernment is tough. People might need more help than they're willing to admit and receive. And that's a struggle whose worth needs to be in constant re-evaluation on a case by case basis. Crazy, right?
Steak and ground beef is also fairly "low hanging." 😋
"No one's doing anything about it." If only he knew about Bitcoin... 😔
Bro. Just got done playing the Borderlands 3 story for the first time and just 30 minutes ago as I wake up this gets released. https://youtu.be/VEEkW7y_tZU
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Wait a minute... I accidentally liked my own note and I can't remove it on Primal? Well that's annoying. 😒
Ya I agree. Though there's something a little odd here... With a protocol that lets you say just about whatever you want, you would think there would be more bad actors.
I guess Primal and maybe relays might be doing some heavy lifting to filter some of that. So I suppose it makes it feel like an "immaculate conception." Maybe that feeling is still right considering that people are nice on nostr. Those that aren't don't really get my attention.
Thank god. I've never really investigated this but this makes sense. You have no idea how annoying it is when people say "we don't know how the pyramids were made." How could we not know? All that's needed is to essentially apply Occam's razor.
Just venting now, I have a family member who loves "Egyptology" and believes we don't know how we made the pyramids. I've been annoyed with this stupidity for way too long. It's simply not interesting and there's a lot of "we must not use our brains to ensure we can milk a non-existent neverending mystery!" 😩
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This is a very good point; albeit up until saying "making clients that can use multiple crypto currencies." I don't think we should be encouraging other crypto currencies.
I think your line of thinking is right but the conclusion that we should encourage or support scams for adoption is wrong. Of course, nothing's stopping anyone from making a client that does support such crypto coins.
Did we forget ordinals and Bitcoin magazine's scam shill articles? I understand mentioning this isn't exactly directly related to your point but I bring it up because I think I'm seeing a pattern here. I think it's a slippery slope that's down the same avenue of thinking that made those kinds of articles happen at Bitcoin magazine.
Is nostr a Bitcoin thing? Honestly, yes. But could it exist without money being attached in any way? Absolutely. But I think that hardly matters given our reality.
I think it's just the nature of the beast and the unfortunate reality that people will immediately turn away if bitcoin is mentioned. In time they will learn either the hard way or the easy way. That's okay and people will find utility in nostr as much as they will in Bitcoin. Patience, we don't need to play games to try and "get people on nostr." Though I think such a thing is fun to ruminate on and speculate.
Just had a thought... Perhaps people don't really want the freedom nostr provides. They would rather be coddled by centralized entities who censor words, ideas, and filter spam. I genuinely think people think that's more valuable than decentralized, censorship resistant communication.
Because until we can emulate algorithms, AI filtering, and whatever else a big centralized entity can do on cheap consumer hardware, lots of people won't touch nostr. Each should be able to have the experience they want right outside the box. That's a tall and tough order for a decentralized communications platform like nostr.
The only reason why people might say they want something like nostr, and yet never move to nostr, is because they believe that if they complain and throw a large enough trantrum, authority will give them what they really want. It's an extremely abusive relationship. Network effects don't help either.
I think that would be taking a few steps back. Honestly, I think adoption is a very slow burn. People will use it but it'll have to spread by word of mouth. Perhaps a company down the line will use nostr and it'll be huge. That happened with Linux gaming, Valve, and the Steam Deck. So it's possible it happens again.