Nostr Web Client

nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?

₿atiskaf 1y ago

Twitter made zero sense to me until 2017, when I finally started buying Bitcoin and felt the need to keep informed about it. Twitter was the place to follow other bitcoiners. And now austrian economy / ancap types, too. I guess that's what forums/reddit used to be about, but i never got into any of that. Nostr today is just a twitter alternative minus the network effect 🤷‍♀️ That decentralized ID just needs more different applications.

₿atiskaf 1y ago

You're not ready.

₿atiskaf 1y ago

When people can vote for the transfer of wealth to themselves, the ballot box becomes a weapon by which the majority plunders the minority.

The Creature From Jekyll Island

by G. Edward Griffin

#grownostr

₿atiskaf 1y ago

Taken to their logical conclusion:

- Democracy leads to Socialism

- Socialism leads to Mass Murder

It's only a question of time.

A free market is based on inviolable property rights, honest money and voluntary exchange of value.

A free market is our best shot at fair and sustainable human prosperity.

If you wonder where the State fits into this picture, you are right: it does not.

It is a parasitoid, which we were born with and don't even notice it kills us.

It convinced you you need its "protection".

It lied.

₿atiskaf 1y ago

Democracy inevitably leads to socialism.

Socialism inevitably leads to mass murder.

It's only a question of time.

A free market is based on inviolable property rights, honest money and voluntary exchange of value.

A free market is the only just road to sustainable human prosperity.

₿atiskaf 1y ago

There are two kinds of people: those who don't get it and those who freak out.

https://www.audible.com/pd/B00DZUGWX6?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow

₿atiskaf 1y ago

honest money

₿atiskaf 1y ago

Happy 6th birthday to Bitcoin Audible 🎉

₿atiskaf 1y ago

Each following 1k is a smaller percentage jump up in price and is ever easier to reach.

#BitcoinPump #Bitcoin

₿atiskaf 1y ago

#Bitcoin is at ~$60k and I feel nothing.

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Club Orange

When you go to a movie theater and you have to buy a ticket to get in, did you spend the ticket or the fiat?

₿atiskaf 1y ago

You are spending Bitcoin, because with the fiat you exchanged for a ticket you could have bought Bitcoin instead 💁🏻

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Gigi

₿atiskaf 1y ago

Who's the guy?

₿atiskaf 1y ago

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3GoINKLIMIW368GQW40jSO?si=FAKb0a5cSwS6dtQyl_O0mQ

nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev sharing a great point about the pointlessness of Bitcoin ETFs for anyone who can buy actual #Bitcoin instead 💁🏻

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