There are 625k Nostr profiles today, up more than 5x from 108k a month ago.

Not only are these new Nostr users, but many are new Lightning users too.

Won't be long before we have millions of people across the world stacking sats for sharing great content.

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I hope someday reposts and zaps completely replace the need for “likes”/🤙🏼.

Reposts and zaps are true value exchange…and have a real cost: your reputation or money.

Likes are superficial and exist only to inform an algorithm.

Relevance algorithms have their place, but they are best informed by a truly costly action.

I didn't know you were here. Welcome, brother!

wow I fuckin HIJACKED your post my bad lol

damn, the one time i try copy link lol

Just did my first zap! Incredible.

with a couple clicks,

you can have an entire online presence, with the ability to send & receive funds,

without divulging any personal information.

🤯.

Bitcoin was nothing like that when it was as early as Nostr is now.

The very people proposing it were skeptical of it, willing to hear about all possible limitations etc — and it was a breakthrough obvious to anyone who did any research around the idea of digital cash. Nostr obviously has no big breakthrough in it — there’s not even any attempt to make arguments in that direction— only about how it changes everything, assuming it solves the problem of censorship.

It reminds me not of Bitcoin, but of the way newborn altcoins are shilled with wild assertions and zero research to back it.