Bitcoin is the most important invention in the history of the world since the Internet 🔥⚡️

Honest break down of where things are today:

#1 nostr 🔮 has a user base that is accessible from any nostr client. Currently that user base is approx 10k DAU of high quality pubkey ie pfp, banner, completed NIP-05.

There are approx 100k DAU of all pubkeys. This has happened organically. No paid downloads, not even any ads. Nostr has had quite a bit of attention and this has spiked awareness several times. 😁

#2 Content, naturally we spend a lot of time talking about nostr, protocols, Bitcoin, Twitter, this is great and these subjects are well served here but whilst we are all very enthusiastic about this stuff, we should also engage broader subjects too. People love travel, clothes, food, etc. Don’t let other subjects whither before they get established.🤔

#3 Zaps ⚡️, the integration of money into the network is a game changer and a huge achievement by everyone involved. The potential here is almost unlimited… if the community grows. But we have to collectively earn that community growth, all of us, together.😏🙂

What can those of us already here do?

#A we should make a big effort as a community to help new people landing in a chaotic Global feed to navigate the showers, find some follows and crucially; set up their pubkey. By setting up their pubkey they are making a small investment of time and closing the “I feel like an outsider” gap. 🥹

#B Try creating a new pubkey today and see what the experience is like for a new person coming over without the signal tuned. It can be difficult to navigate the rawness of Global and find active engaging people. Let’s be mindful that it’s very early for nostr, setting up a pubkey and tuning signal is a learning curve and requires effort, I try and spend some time each day fishing people out of global and helping them. 🎣

#C New users are the fuel, as nostr has passed various milestones new friction has emerged that we should seek to address. For new pubkeys there is a lot of spam, this chokes onboarding and poses a threat to the network. Nostr needs growth and to achieve that we must overcome onboarding, that means:

i) Pubkey set up, pfp, banner, bio, NIP-05

ii) Spam filtering, make this easy / default

iii) Signal tuning, aka discovery 📡

It’s important to try out each client as a new pubkey and see what the experience is like, whichever has the nicest experience is likely to be the most used client after a year.

I feel like there is a valley of death to cross where the network isn’t quite large enough to support some things but needs some things to attract more users. Let’s be honest about this and continue working for it.

… and keep the zaps ⚡️ flowing that’s basically the community bootstrapping itself to the world 🌎

Been joining a lot of Ordinals discussions on Twitter Spaces the last week with NFT people to try to connect with that community.

Hearing a lot of nonsense from them re: Bitcoin pre-ordinals.

Crypto people *actually* think there’s only ~600 devs working on Bitcoin projects.

They actually believe that Bitcoin had a “toxic community” until ordinals.

I tried explaining that they have all been sleeping on Bitcoin second & third layer development, sidechain development, global bitcoin adoption as well as bitcoin-adjacent projects like Nostr, Holepunch, Hypercore etc.

These folks now believe they are bringing culture, fun and diversity to Bitcoin.

What is this psychological phenomenon called?

They think bitcoin had a security budget problem, and because of them, bitcoin security is now fixed.

To their credit, the majority of them all seem to revere BTC and the Bitcoin blockchain.

Lots of this behavior, although they don’t “attack” bitcoiners (except Udi who always does) they do mostly keep it positive.

Do you guys feel the FOMO kicking in?

You stack all the way down, and when price rips you feel you haven’t stacked hard enough! Anyone else? 🥲

It really does feel like we are on to something here

The reason why I refuse to take existentialism as just another French fashion or historical curiosity, is that I think it has something very important to offer us for the new century. I'm afraid we're losing the real virtues of living life passionately in the sense of taking responsibility for who you are, the ability to make something of yourself and feeling good about life. Existentialism is often discussed as if it's a philosophy of despair, but I think the truth is just the opposite. Sartre once interviewed said, he never really felt a day of despair in his life. But one thing that comes out from reading these guys is not a sense of anguish about life so much as a real kind of exuberance, a feeling on top of it. It's like your life is yours to create. I've read the post-modernists with some interest, even admiration, but when I read them I always have this awful nagging feeling that something absolutely essential is getting left out. The more that you talk about a person as a social construction, or as a confluence of forces, or as fragmented or marginalized, what you do is you open up a whole new world of excuses. And when Sartre talks about responsibility, he's not talking about something abstract. He's not talking about the kind of self or soul that theologians would argue about. It's something very concrete. It's you and me talking, making decisions, doing things, and taking the consequences. It might be true that there are six billion people in the world, and counting. Nevertheless - what you do makes a difference. It makes a difference, first of all, in material terms. It makes a difference to other people, and it sets an example. And in short, I think the message here is that we should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as the victim of various forces. It's always our decision who we are.

I think tracking the amount of accounts with Bio is a good enough metric. I occasionally check on Twitter the profiles and I'm not finding any empty ones. So perhaps at least some bio details everyone will add and then it will meet the criteria to be a "profile with Bio".

I think tracking the amount of accounts with Bio is a good enough metric. I occasionally check on Twitter the profiles and I'm not finding any empty ones. So perhaps at least some bio details everyone will add and then it will meet the criteria to be a "profile with Bio".