Why should reach be regulated? To suggest other accounts? What I have in mind is not a classic timeline.

X, Nostr, Bluesky, Threads, even weblogs ... all timeline-based UIs (user interfaces).

They all share one common drawback: posts quickly disappear from the attention zone, old posts are hard to find, become practically inaccessible, expire too quickly, and good content gets lost too easily.

The next revolution of social media UIs would be: not timeline-based, but content-based. A completely different form of presentation that would eliminate all the drawbacks mentioned above. Truly revolutionary.

It would also render a manipulative algorithm obsolete. I have the concept/UI and author functions in mind for years. However, implementing it would require some capital.

Shareholder value was more at risk prior to the bitcoin strategy. Most other business analytics companies went away or were absorbed into the tech titans. MicroStrategy was hanging on, but it was a melting ice cube, which then makes it hard to attract the best employees or maintain the best economy of scale, which then accelerates the melting of the ice cube.

And within the bitcoin strategy, taking on debt is the bigger risk. If bitcoin is in a bear market when their debt matures and without a lot of gains from the cost basis, that could cause them to dilute equity at a bad time, or have to sell bitcoin, or do other inopportune actions that would damage shareholder value.

Issuing overvalued equity to buy more bitcoin and thus improve the bitcoin-per-share metric, mildly de-risks the company by improving the equity/debt ratio, and is good for shareholder returns, assuming shareholders are bullish on bitcoin (which by this point, most of them are). It makes the overall company size way bigger, gives them a warchest of capital if they need it, helps them hire top talent including for their business analytics business, and reverse the melting ice cube trap.

MicroStrategy's bitcoin acquisition strategy has been really on-point.

I analyze a lot of stocks and see how they manage their shares. Most companies are rather pro-cyclical in this aspect. They buy back a lot of shares when times are good and shares are expensive, and then when there's a recession they reduce or eliminate their share repurchases, ironically when shares are cheap and it would be better to buy them.

A small percentage of companies have more forward-thinking executives that manage to do this more counter-cyclically. They buy back more shares then they are cheap, and they retain more cash or do other things with their cash when their shares are more expensive.

MicroStrategy has been doing this quite well, except it's about the strategy of issuing shares for bitcoin, which if bitcoin continues to be successful will have more impact overall.

When MicroStrategy wants to buy more bitcoin (which is always), what they seem to be optimizing for is how many bitcoin can they get per share. That's what builds shareholder value in this context. So when MicroStrategy stock is trading at a valuation premium relative to its underlying bitcoin, they can take that opportunity to issue more of these expensive shares, and buy bitcoin with those proceeds. When there is not a valuation premium, they can focus more on just buying bitcoin with incoming cash flow, or exploring other low-cost financing.

So far, they have been really on-point about managing this.

Never used it. Was always put off by the fees.

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What do you think,

Which are some best clients to use Nostr?

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I like #WooCommerce, but sometimes it really sucks. Sometimes the most basic functions for operating a global online store require an extra paid add-on.

It's too focused on the US market and is actually still far from being a global brand.

It's the Europeans' fault, I know. They should bring something of their own onto the market. Especially when they have such complicated legislation of their own. Unfortunately they don't, and probably can't. Neither in terms of competence nor potential market size can they keep up.