No, let them talk. I need to know who these idiots are.

I am a migrant. Many people that make nostr are migrants.

I recently worked on these “support bitcoin core devs” stickers inspired by the kinds of messaging seen at farmers markets. 🌽

It was fun to play with a few different themes, including coffee shop logos and the organic labels they put on food.

Would love to hear feedback and know which ones you like best! They made their debut a few weekends ago at the MIT Bitcoin Expo and I’m excited to get more for future events ☺️

It looks awful and I'd never want to suffer it. But maybe someone else will. Try it and see.

Bitcoin can't be a "uniquely special feature of Nostr" because it is not contained by Nostr, right?

Any platform anywhere can add Bitcoin features like Nostr apps do.

Zapping being only in Nostr-compatible apps is partly cultural and probably also partly a lack of demand or interest elsewhere.

No?

What are the fun things to do on Nostr that I cannot do elsewhere?

Wouldnt we just rather nostr failed then? 👀😐

Is this good UX?

I guess you’ll happily accept your CBDCs with their excellent UX.

Simply "buying sats". Let's assume you've just learned what a Sat is 5 minutes ago, now you've decided you need to get 5,000 of these so-called Sats because that'll unlock something fun on Nostr (which you've also just learned about a few minutes ago). Your motivation will carry you for about 5 minutes of Googling, that's about it.

Strike debit card purchase works in 30+ countries (not in Canada and some other larger ones), and not in some US states like New York. Where Strike does work (and I've just onboarded to test) you're looking at photo-scanning your passport, scanning your bank statement or utility bill, scanning your face, waiting a day, getting an ask for another scan of a bank statement, scanning that one too, waiting 2 more days, then getting approved. Then you must buy minimum $25 worth of Sats, then after that you must figure out how to send these to your Nostr app, and of course understand the underlying plumbing of it all to at least some extent so you don't fear you'll do something wrong. (The Strike UX is not easy for newcomers.) Nobody looking to grab a few Sats on a whim is going to go through that.

Or you could go the Primal route, but 30% goes straight to Apple. If you're thinking about the person providing the experiences (say a creator) it makes no sense to use Primal over say Patreon. On Patreon it's 8% and they just use their card. Primal it's 30% to Apple and the drop-off from having to still KYC and buy Sats, there's no creator business model there.

USDT is of course far easier, and maybe USDT Taproot integration will help depending how swaps develop. But at the moment simply "getting a hold of Sats" is a massive barrier for most people.

It's very difficult to acquire Sats, that's the main issue for me. Person X may have become aware of something fun to do on Nostr, and they've discovered they need these things called Sats, which are apparently Bitcoin pennies of a sort—but how to get them? That's where it breaks down. All the options out there present an order of magnitude too much friction.

I'm building a bounty marketplace over nostr and it's going to be incredible

Bitcoin integration is a uniquely special feature of Nostr—for people that have Bitcoin to spend. Which is a tiny, tiny fraction of internet users.

+ how much about monetization or some revenue generation

That's dope. I just wish Penpot wouldn't start lagging every time I have more than 3 frames. I feel like anytime I add a photograph to a board or duplicate a board, the whole application just comes screeching to a halt and starts freezing.