If I had to guess, it’s because early nostr adopters (like bitcoiners) are ideologically-driven and trying to improve and change the world.
It seems like more and more people are recognizing that a blockchain is not a great foundation for most “crypto” use cases. It’s slow, clunky, hard to change. Which is exactly what you want to have underpinning a new global monetary system. But a semi-centralized “world computer”, maybe not.
Bitcoin exists to change everything about the world we live in for the better. Nostr has a similar ethos.
Ethereum, even if you believe it has value, seems like much more of a tech project, with various close competitors, and may well follow in the footsteps of AOL and AskJeeves, if/when other “crypto” projects do the same thing better.
IMO, it’s less a matter of subjectivity, and more a question of scale. Bitcoin is unique, and freedom tech is a movement. It’s a meaningfully different system from the investment-tech-token-financialization playground that the broader “crypto industry” inhabits. My two sats ✌️
