CoinMarketCap's community/ social network is rather odd. Many of my posts supposedly get a ton of views and reaction emojis, but never any comments that look organic.

So I did a test post recently asking for everyone to comment on the post... and it got basically no engagement.

Please delay WWIII until after the bull market. I need some time to build my bunker.

No. People are not going to leave Twitter for Nostr unless there is something very compelling. A nice UX & simplicity isn't enough they want something different, something special not the same thing that just looks a little nicer & easier to use. Being a Twitter replacement isn't enough, Jack is absolutely correct.

Seems streamlining of many functions if the holdup IMO. For instance, until I do more research relays are pain in my ass. I added 30, maybe 13 work. My posts dont reach anyone hardly. Most users won't want to learn this. Users don't want to do ANY research. They will just want them to be there when they join, and work, without thinking about it or any management.

Yes I’m proposing simple outreach. There’s no reason miners want to avoid Sv2, so it’s really just a question of socially convincing them to do a bit of work to switch.

What made me shift to nostr almost completely are:

- Crazy amount of irrelevant ugly blinking ads.

- Algorithms that make you invisible, you're basically talking to yourself. I can do this in my head, why bother typing.

- I like to use the word FUCK or CUNT when I deem appropriate. Twitter throws you to abyss of isolation for that.

Apart from those, Twitter will be missed. Not for long I hope.

nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?

A miners business depends on the long term health of the network. If they harm the network for a short term profit today, they'll loose much harder, over the longer term, due to the decay and obscurity of a failed project.

Nah that’s just naive. Sure, economic incentive is some of the best pressure, but social pressure works too, especially when there’s no economic disincentive as with Sv2. Why are public large bitcoin miners not being harassed on Twitter to adopt tech that is good for Bitcoin?

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NEW: #Bitcoin ⛏️ mining difficulty jumps 4% as hashrate approaches all-time highs, with the 7-day MA rising in recent days.

It’s time for miners to wake up and start migrating to Sv2.

Mining centralization is as bad as it’s ever been and the bullishness on bitcoin is totally unjustified given miners don’t seem to care about bitcoin in the slightest.

If it doesn’t get better nearly every PoS chain is literally going to be more decentralized and censorship resistant than bitcoin.

If you care about Bitcoin you are responsible for fixing this. Pressure miners.

It’s time for miners to wake up and start migrating to Sv2.

Mining centralization is as bad as it’s ever been and the bullishness on bitcoin is totally unjustified given miners don’t seem to care about bitcoin in the slightest.

If it doesn’t get better nearly every PoS chain is literally going to be more decentralized and censorship resistant than bitcoin.

If you care about Bitcoin you are responsible for fixing this. Pressure miners.

GM plebs

Pre-halving dump for ants ?