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What's the better way to phrase it would you say? So many of these terms are poisoned now "influencer" etc. "independent journalism"?

Follower count--like price--is probably something you want to check as little as possible. It's not that it's not important, or that it going up shouldn't make you happy, it's just that it's confusing the scoreboard for the game if you obsess over it, AI guess. It is a validation that you are putting out signal, though, especially for someone who wants to grow a career in media. So no shame in celebrating those milestones or else always having a new, bigger, goal in sight, imo.

The way I’ve been doing it is to not mention bitcoin at all unless they ask how the micropayments work. Just say, on the open nostr network you can send micropayments to tip people and pay for content and services.

Honestly, to a non-technical person, they don’t really know the difference between PayPal, apple wallet, a bank account, western union, a credit card, or pre-paid debit card.

If they are concerned about bitcoin, it’s either because they feel crypto currencies are speculative bubbles (bitcoin is lumped in with everybody else) or the environmental impact of mining. I say lightning transactions don’t require mining, the only impact is the occasional and limited reconciliation on to the main bitcoin blockchain. I avoid the arguments about mining and its carbon impact, just say, lightning is a network on top of bitcoin which doesn’t need mining to work.

Just like nobody asks for the hashing function on nostr vs bluesky vs farcaster, most people need to know what it can do for them, what pressing problem it can solve, not how it solves it.

The way I’ve been doing it is to not mention bitcoin at all unless they ask how the micropayments work. Just say, on the open nostr network you can send micropayments to tip people and pay for content and services.

Honestly, to a non-technical person, they don’t really know the difference between PayPal, apple wallet, a bank account, western union, a credit card, or pre-paid debit card.

If they are concerned about bitcoin, it’s either because they feel crypto currencies are speculative bubbles (bitcoin is lumped in with everybody else) or the environmental impact of mining. I say lightning transactions don’t require mining, the only impact is the occasional and limited reconciliation on to the main bitcoin blockchain. I avoid the arguments about mining and its carbon impact, just say, lightning is a network on top of bitcoin which doesn’t need mining to work.

Just like nobody asks for the hashing function on nostr vs bluesky vs farcaster, most people need to know what it can do for them, what pressing problem it can solve, not how it solves it.