Thanks for sending news here. nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m said twitter became a news platform. We need more news here so we can stop using fiat news platforms completely. I think I might run a relay for journalists only so you could turn off bitcoin content for a moment without changing the client:)
Amazing plan, many kms (but probably nothing for Americans :) Enjoy! #travelstr
Great fireside between nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m at Nostriga. I got a chance to listen to it now.
Regarding the question of whether Nostr will have more users than Twitter/X in five years (~500 million), my base case would be no, actually. And I say that as a huge Nostr fan and daily user.
In the long arc of time, Nostr's addressable market is nearly unlimited (basically everyone who uses the internet could be using Nostr in some form), but I expect somewhat of a slower burn. Infrastructure build-out type stuff. And breaching a network effect with a better solution is generally quite a long uphill climb.
To me, Nostr is successful once it starts serving tens of millions of people well. I expect it to be more of a quality over quantity thing for a while. Bitcoin is almost 16 years in and still isn't at 500 million users. But for many of those people, it was lifechanging.
I'd like to be surprised to the upside, but I also don't want people to think that if Nostr is "only" at tens of millions of people in five years, or 100+ million but still sub-Twitter, that it underachieved. It's tiny right now, and numbers anywhere approaching that would be a huge increase.
Nostr is a great improvement for everyone using it. But sometimes it takes people time to see why a given solution is better than what they have, or to realize they have a problem at all.
So in the meantime I monitor Nostr's success by the quality and quantity of developer activity, the capability of the protocol as a freedom tool or the shortcomings it still has for that use case, the quality of the conversations throughout the ecosystem, how many people consider it to be lifechanging tech compared to centralized social media, and in time, steady growth.
We should also take into account the fact that twitter userbase will shrink when people like ODELL leave with their audiences, and others move here b/c they got banned there. So the final number to compare might be different to nostr advantage
#[1] you ask so I reply, we need instant buy with fiat, or instant card charge like in Wise. Btc dropped and I had to wait 1 day for the funds to deposit, then it went up and I had to buy for higher price :(
Are people addicted to youtube? If I watch something there a few times a week, just deciding to watch what I want, why to feed the big tech? By paying them you help them to enslave us and promote wars. Thats another perspective but of course if you are a regular user you may want to pay for the service with better quality (with no adds)
As far as I know, the Church was propagating the knowledge, literature, science and medicine. Also it was the first “organization” that in fact wanted to reject the slavery - but this fact is not well known, for obvious reasons. The truth is, the Church before VC2 was fighting the opression and spreading the equality around the world
#[0] I am reding btc standard and agreed with everything you say until I got to the point you criticize Catholic Church as being an opressing regime in the middle ages. Do you have some kind of proof for this thesis? Do you still hold that opinion or has it changed?
Going there soon, not sure if I should watch it or not 😅
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