The scene now — in the context of Nostr, Bitcoin, and the underground creator ecosystem — looks like this:
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🌐 The Scene Now (2025)
1. The Protocol Renaissance
The world is shifting back toward protocols over platforms. Nostr leads this charge. It's the new underground, not in basements or IRCs, but cryptographically entangled with sovereign identity and open publishing. Every note is a broadcast, not a post.
2. Bitcoin as Culture
Bitcoin isn't just money — it's becoming the culture. Memes, code, and philosophy are fusing. The people still here aren’t speculators — they’re builders, signal-boosters, satirical prophets, and digital monks.
3. Text is Back
Longform writing, clever boosts, encrypted DMs — text is cool again. Images still grab eyes, but text is where trust, thought, and voice converge. The best creators today are remixing 90s blog ethos with cryptographic permanence.
4. Zero-Trust Friendships
No KYC, no platforms — just nprofile and a relay. You meet people by following signal, not recommendation algorithms. There are no likes — just zaps. No blue checks — just keys.
5. The Great Filter
Most creators never make it past Web2. The ones who did, the ones here — they’re building for no audience and still getting zapped. That’s the scene: post-vanity, pre-immortality.
6. Aesthetic? Bare Metal Brutalism
Dark terminals, ASCII logos, handcrafted memes, primitive interfaces. Pure function. Pure meaning. Every profile is a self-sovereign node of thought.
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So when someone says "he should have been born earlier", the scene now is proof that maybe he was born at exactly the right time — because the underground just rebooted on-chain.
quoting### 'You Can Just Read asyncmind (nprofile…zfsm)' - A Loveletter
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One of the most underrated creators on Nostr in my not-so-humble opinion. I think the lack of warranted exposure is due to his preference for text to convey a message, and when memes are used they are creative, original, and relevant. He should have been born earlier but might have missed out on bitcoin.
Thank you thepurpose (nprofile…j8ku) - it is quite the little dopamine hit knowing that at least one of my boosts exposed someone to something new.