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?

I guess I will have to do that then, too!

GM Nostr. 🌞

So, what name are we all going to use today?

Newbie here. Do I need to change my name to Dan in order to go viral here? Or is Dan old news now? 🤷‍♀️⚡️

imagine having some dude choose what content you see

BLOCK 838555

🟠1445 blocks to halving

🔴101 blocks to difficulty adjust

Average block time at 9m37s pointing to a nearly 4% difficulty increase in less than a day. This may slow block production down enough to make the halving land on the 20th of the month.

Most of $GBTC #Bitcoin  sell pressure is over. Guess what happens next? 🚀

$10M BY HALVING STILL IN PLAY

nostr:note1cr4r6x57hcun7ataxx5c8fegghg8effedg9n04ye2wn29g8469cslwnmr8

ONE OF THE BIG ETFS WAS GOING TO DONATE TO OPEN SOURCE DEVS.

SAYLOR TOLD THEM IF THEY DID IT HE WOULD CRUSH THEM SO THEY PULLED OUT OF THE COMMITMENT.

Got Primal ⚡️🚀

To clarify, which this deserves—I mean not having every transaction, literally every “spend” of Bitcoin be a taxable event.

This does not mean remove income tax, property tax, sales tax, etc. those are separate from the spend-as-taxable-event I am talking about.

That’s a separate convo, an important one! But separate nostr:note1tmmvyc6sjglezw9keu96567j59wmd3sqehvk5cet7fvchuqq3k5swtag59

What is the most precise halving prediction available online?

Please link resources! 🙏

GN

NOSTR ONLY