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Josiah Goff
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Bitcoiner, podcaster, product guy

Thank you, Satoshi šŸ™‚

I’m 4 years into this and feel it in my bones, but my conviction is stronger than ever.

I went all in with my whole life savings near the top of the 2021 high and bought the dips all the way down. One of the hardest things I’ve ever done, and even if it goes to $0 tomorrow it’d still be worth it because it helped me develop balls of steel.

Stay humble. Stack sats. Live free āœŠšŸ»

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That’s because anyone who says X sounds retarded. Terrible branding.

In general I agree, but would like to point out:

1. There’s something to be said for being together a few years before having kids to focus on building a strong foundation in your relationship first. It will set you up to be a better parenting team.

2. Some couples absolutely should not have kids. So this does not apply to everyone.

Just so everyone knows, this isn’t from GPR. That graphic is inaccurate. They’re using InSAR from multiple angles and using a new, proprietary AI software they developed to create a model from the interference patterns in the near-surface level readings. Still a lot to verify before it ā€œprovesā€ anything, but it at least gives enough evidence to warrant further investigation, as they’re the only ones with access to the software right now.

It’s not GPR. That graphic is inaccurate. They’re using InSAR from multiple angles and using a new, proprietary AI software they developed to create a model from the interference patterns in the near-surface level readings. Still a lot to verify before it ā€œprovesā€ anything, but it at least gives enough evidence to warrant further investigation as they’re the only ones with access to the software.

Replying to Avatar Mike Rama

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

ā€œIf you were in my shoes (growth @ Primal), what would you do to grow Primal and Nostr?ā€

I’ve been thinking about this the last couple daysā€¦šŸ¤”

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…

šŸ¤” What’s the best way to recruit creators to the network at scale?

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

šŸ¤” Would ā€œrecruitingā€ 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 ā€œanother social mediaā€

So…

šŸ§ šŸ’­ Here’s the plan šŸ’­šŸ§ 

1ļøāƒ£ 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.

2ļøāƒ£ 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 ā€œclaimedā€.

Sats would accumulate in their wallet until the user ā€œclaimsā€ 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 ā€œvote with their satsā€ on who they want to see come over to the network…

It crowdsources the growth engine of the network.

šŸ“Side notes/tangential ideas:

- Maybe Primal marks these accounts as ā€œunclaimed/unverifiedā€ so it’s transparent

- After a certain number of days ā€œUnclaimedā€ 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:

3ļøāƒ£ 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…

4ļøāƒ£ 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.

ā€œYou gained 197 followers and were zapped 21,538 sats these past 14 days… come claim your account and walletā€

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

5ļøāƒ£ 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 šŸ‘€)

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 šŸ‘‡šŸ½

Hoping this sparks other ideas and conversations

That seems sketchy, and I don’t think it would be very effective. What you need are a few great case studies of creators making a living from zaps (do we have that yet?) and then get them on shows like Colin & Samir and then creators will flock here.

But, we also need great tools for creators, and better integration with existing tools. For example, most creators batch create their content and schedule/recycle with 3rd parties tools like Publer, Buffer, HypeFury, etc. These tools make it easier to produce and distribute content at scale. Targeting those platforms to get them to integrate with Nostr would make recruiting creators much easier because then it just becomes one more channel they turn on for their existing content schedule.

However, that’s no small feat. Until last month I ran the product team for one of these platforms, and even though I’m a huge Nostr fan I couldn’t yet justify allocating resources to build a Nostr integration because none of our customers were asking for it (but a ton were asking for Bluesky, sadly).

Which goes back to a lack of awareness about Nostr and our lack of a PR and marketing team (outside of our little Bitcoin niche). We need great success stories and a way to get them in front of the people who would be motivated by them. Is anyone currently doing this work?

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