this one goes out to Elizabeth Warren, not that she’d ever be here.

The fact that Elon Musk's title is "Technoking" and Jack Dorsey's title is "Block Head", speaks volumes.

One is about ego, and one is not. But more importantly we can see the difference in their actions more than titles from there.

Elon wants to build Twitter or the shitty name "X" into the next WeChat, with himself as the leader. He has literally said this. I used to be able to report bots on Twitter easily for many years, but now I have to show a drivers' ID to report someone that copies my persona even as a 600k following paid blue check, and so I don't bother anymore, and therefore bots proliferate. And if you don't pay for reach, you get devalued. Only in the past few months have I had to show my ID to report my countless bot copiers if I want to report them on Twitter/X. And so their rate of removal has decreased. If my Nym differs a bit from my name, well LET'S FILE SOME TPS REPORTS!!!! (which wasn't previously the case). And so as bots proliferate, and as Musk fails to contain bots as he promised he would and bragged about with memes, he will instead reference his own self-created bot problem as a reason to require even more ID requirements and try to build his US version of the Chinese Communist Party WeChat app. This is exactly what governments do. In my professional opinion, after careful consideration, Elon Musk can ::check notes:: politely go fuck himself, and those who worship him should reconsider what exactly they show blind obedience toward.

With the recent rise in fiat price of Bitcoin, it's not surprising to see a lot of people who were sitting on the fence jumping in, asking question like "how can I invest in Bitcoin?", "is this a good time to buy?", "What about this cheaper coin?"

But this is new.

Since I've been talking about Nostr and ranting on how facebook and X is twisting your psyche and damaging your ability to think clearly, a guy ask me where can he buy Nostr stocks.

I initially told him No, there is no 'The Nostr Co., Ltd." that he can invest in but I think it's better to explain that in more details.

Nostr, or The Nostr 🤣 is a protocol for transmitting notes and other stuff through a network of relays. (The name stands for **Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays**) where individual can broadcast a message, which can be anything, to a network without having to sign up for an account anywhere, all notes and other stuff only requires a digital signature to verify its validity, there is no central server where the notes and user account information are kept, users create and maintain their own account by generating their own private / public key pairs.

It's a decentralized communication protocol that is open to anyone.

It's a dumb protocol that anyone can build their own applications on.

The first applications were created to facilitate signing, broadcasting, and aggregating notes to and from relays, acting like a 'Twitter clone' but more and more applications are exploring ways to utilize the 'Othe Stuff' aspect of the protocol.

## So, how do you actually 'Invest' in the Nostr?

While the initial answer is no, there is no Nostr coin or stocks (Well, there's probably a shitcoin called Nostr, created to fool those Fomo'ing in), once you understand what it is, you actually can, and there are several ways.