frjosh on Nostr: It's not wrong. I saw the topic of Nostr and normies trending the other day, and... ...
It's not wrong. I saw the topic of Nostr and normies trending the other day, and... forget about it. You will never attract a normie crowd when Bitcoin is such a prevalent topic on this site.
Between the Monkees and shitcoin, the normie views all of digital currency with suspicion, and a Bitcoin-enthusiastic environment currently reinforces the cringe they've endured on other sites where the pump and dump spam is unending. It doesn't matter that Nostr is also against these things: it's guilt by association.
If you want to promote Bitcoin here, use the writer's trick: show it, don't say it. Stop talking economic rainbows and unicorns like communists awaiting some glorious revolution, and focus on the tools here -- then use them for normal things. Crypto should be an aid to the normative, not an end in itself.
Is it wrong that I'm tired of hearing about Bitcoin?
It still feels like people here view it as a "religion." I like crypto (Monero in particular), but it's not our savior; it won't bring us world peace or even internal peace. (Though it can bring us some privacy and great services like trusted VPNS, etc.)
When we die, we can't take our stacks of crypto coins with us. We're too caught up in the digital life. We need to foster a real life, one with real people, real activity, real interaction, real work, real books. A life ordered toward our proper end: God.
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