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If someone bought $10 of bitcoin on the first day of every month starting December 2019, how many sats would they have today?

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Our guests this week are nostr:npub1723dmdf77knjxd8d8j39rxjg8rem8k76cx85dx74y2xk5xjfte3qfkrla6 and Chris from the Bitcoin Sports Network to discuss v4v and sports 👀

We’re changing things up starting with this show, and will be streaming live on zap.stream. Link will be posted right before the show.

Set your blockclocks!

I walked into the primal house the other day in beautiful Uvita, and nostr:nprofile1qqsgqke57uygxl0m8elstq26c4mq2erz3dvdtgxwswwvhdh0xcs04scyt7yh7 asked me…

“If you were in my shoes (growth @ Primal), what would you do to grow Primal and Nostr?”

I’ve been thinking about this the last couple days…🤔

Here’s what I got:

First off, I feel like the biggest unlock for nostr is recruiting creators with existing audiences on other platforms to come over to nostr.

One creator with a massive following could lead to thousands of new nostr users…

We’ve seen this happen many times over…

Now play that out across hundreds of creators with large audiences - this could have a massive impact.

With that being said…

🤔 What’s the best way to recruit creators to the network at scale?

🤔 What’s an absolute no brainer offer to a large creator, something that they couldn’t say no to…?

🤔 Would “recruiting” creators even work? Should all growth here just be organic and natural…?

While I was thinking this through, I had to remind myself of a hurdle that we’d need to overcome to make this work:

Creators DON’T want another platform.

Most are already overwhelmed with the number of apps they need to post on and keep up with…

99.9% aren’t actively looking for “another social media”

So…

🧠💭 Here’s the plan 💭🧠

1️⃣ Target a group of top creators on X to recruit to Primal.

We’ll start with Health & Wellness creators since it feels pretty tangential to the existing (primarily bitcoin-focused) network.

ChatGPT deep research estimates there are 200,000 health & wellness influencers with over 50,000 followers on X.

2️⃣ Take that list and create nostr accounts for each.

Start auto-populating their accounts with their existing tweets.

Essentially, bridge the X accounts - whenver they post on X it auto-posts to Nostr.

Now, the most critical step is ensuring that these accounts have a way to receive zaps - even before they’re “claimed”.

Sats would accumulate in their wallet until the user “claims” their account.

The more zaps they receive, the larger the incentive is to come over to nostr and actually claim their account (more on this soon)…

This would tap into into the existing nostr network to “vote with their sats” on who they want to see come over to the network…

It crowdsources the growth engine of the network.

📝Side notes/tangential ideas:

- Maybe Primal marks these accounts as “unclaimed/unverified” so it’s transparent

- After a certain number of days “Unclaimed” wallets get their sats sent back to the sender…?

- I’m not technical so idk how any of this would work… just dreaming up over here.

Now, let’s talk about setup and execution:

3️⃣ Cold Outbound system setup

Build out an email list of all of these creators in step 1.

Use a tool like TweetScraper or other email scraping tools.

Set up a cold email outreach system using Instantly AI…

Spin up a handful of domains and email inboxes - should be able to send 1000s of emails daily.

For some extra touch points set up Drippi AI for Twitter DM outreach out scale.

Now here’s where it get’s interesting…

4️⃣ The NO BRAINER pitch.

Message each creator with a short no brainer pitch…

Remember, 99% of creators don’t want another platform to post to…

This no brainer pitch is meant to get their foot in the door.

We’re not selling the full nostr vision (just yet)…

For now, we’re literally just going for the primal app download.

The pitch?

You have free BTC waiting for you, an audience that’s already growing, and it requires 0 effort to maintain since your account will auto-post from X.

Follow up with their updated stats every 14 days.

“You gained 197 followers and were zapped 21,538 sats these past 14 days… come claim your account and wallet”

This could be done at scale - sending thousands of these emails daily to targeted high profile creators.

5️⃣ is it even worth it…?

I had a conversation with nostr:nprofile1qqspywh6ulgc0w3k6mwum97m7jkvtxh0lcjr77p9jtlc7f0d27wlxpslh36g7 and he mentioned that it seems like all marketing efforts to grow primal/nostr are irrelevant and the only thing that moves the needle are big events…

Things like:

- Twitter banned in Brazil

- Telegram CEO arrest

- Ross Ulbricht joins nostr (soon 👀)

Macro events will likely always be the needle movers…

But imagine 100,000 creators already warmed up when the next big wave happens?

Lmk what you think 👇🏽

Hoping this sparks other ideas and conversations

‼️👉☄️US Vice President: “Germany is killing itself” - The strategy of J.D. Vance

“The tones echoing from the USA towards Europe are becoming increasingly vehement. It is not Donald Trump who is the spokesman, but his vice president J.D. Vance. The last few days show how deep his aversion runs - and what real consequences this has for the continent and the world. (...)

In his speech at the Munich Security Conference in mid-February, he had already made it clear how little he thinks of most European governments. The current week provided new instructive insights into how deep this aversion runs and what real consequences it can have for the transatlantic relationship. (...)

What drives the 40-year-old conservative to continually torpedo the relationship with the allies in the Old World? Two aspects stand out in Vance's public and internal verbal attacks.

One is the role of the USA as Europe's security guarantor. “The American security network has allowed the Europeans to let their own security wither away,” the Vice President had already warned at the Munich Security Conference in 2024. (...)

“If the Europeans are unable to defend themselves, then the US must ask itself: are they allies, or are they customers?” Vance asked rhetorically. (...)

On Friday, Vance and his wife will travel to the US Army base in Pituffik to meet American soldiers. The Vice President had announced his visit to Greenland on Tuesday, and his wife's trip there had been planned in advance. (...)

For Vance, Europe is also an example of decadence. A continent that is decaying due to the decline of conservative values, the disintegration of family structures and Christian culture and therefore has no future. When the staunch anti-abortionist was baptized a Catholic in 2019, the father of three wrote an essay about his journey to faith. (...)

❗️ A few days ago, Vance claimed on Fox that Europe “is risking civilizational suicide. They are unable or unwilling to control their borders. They are restricting the freedom of speech of their citizens because those citizens are protesting the invasion of their borders.”

❗️ Europe is above all “threatened from within” because it is moving away from fundamental values, he explained in his speech to the Munich Security Conference in February.

❗️ Following the election victory of social democrat Keir Starmer, he called Great Britain “the first truly Islamist country to possess nuclear weapons”. And Germany, Vance said on Fox, “will kill itself if it lets a few million more culturally incompatible migrants into the country”. (...)

Vance's call to tear down the firewall to the partially far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) should also be seen against this backdrop.

“I want Europe to thrive. That it is an important ally. Part of that is that Europe respects its own citizens, its own sovereignty.” ”

I'm going to be an enthusiastic brain surgeon.

When the patient gets wheeled in to my operating theatre, I'm going to sing and dance and smile. 😂

GM Nostr

News that Gamestop is going to invest their $4.6bn cash pile into bitcoin is insanely bullish for Bitcoin, but the price has not moved at all.

This is just one of many bits of news that would have sent the price soaring in 2021.

Does anyone have any thoughts on why this might be the case?

not all and silly to assume. the early crowd will typically only talk to people who have been around as long as they have.

the new crowd like me will try to engage with those people will hardly get a response. the social dynamics work like the school cafeteria in an elementary school. cool kids, popular kids, in criws, etc.

every single person has to work their way up unless they are already well known when they come here.