For those folk where the topic of #bitcoin is fringe then having a decentralised communication protocol is even more fringe.
If folks can’t see why we need to decentralise money - then generally decentralising data makes even less sense.
If a seed phrase and 1 hardware wallet is considered “hard” - how on earth would an average person back up all their personal data from all different sites.
There aren’t many downsides to #nostr growth being tied to #bitcoin. Yes some people get “turned away”. Many of these people are tourists anyway and by leaving never understand why #nostr or why #bitcoin.
#nostr is still new and wanting it to be for everyone is a noble goal but one that is too idealistic. The reason why there’s a lot of #bitcoiners on here is because we get why #nostr is important in the first place. Without that understanding a centralised platform is much more convenient.
Framing this differently. In my belief at this point #bitcoin isn’t even fringe. It’s on TV, in Davos, in Congress, SEC, big Investment Banks write essays about it, other governments globally talk about it almost daily. On top of that all the learning material is widely available now and is much better than it use to be with some excellent pieces on the subject.
The price is pretty ridiculously high as well. Everyone’s obsessed with how it has “crashed” but it’s hovering over $20k. That’s insane.
#bitcoin is here staring these people in the face. If there’s no need for #bitcoin then there’s no need for #nostr because it was a #bitcoin lightning developer who had the idea for it and because he was a #bitcoin lightning developer had the sanity to use #bitcoin as the money layer. If this was built by a developer who didn’t believe in #bitcoin we would have had a very different protocol.
It’s the #bitcoin thinking that got us here in the first place therefore I see them growing together and there’s no need for #nostr to shoot ahead of #bitcoin adoption. The two will grow together.
Low time preference.
nobody /
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2023-04-25 19:06:48
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