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It's churn. The problem with getting more than 1% of bitcoiners using nostr is that a huge chunk of these potential users have already churned through nostr. The nostr churn rate is insanely high, for non-bitcoiners, but for bitcoiners too. A big chunk of the bitcoin community on X has given it a kick of the tires. Zooming out, hundreds of thousands of bitcoiners may have churned through already. So now you have to get them all back a second time, or a third time, it's almost impossible, usually you only get one shot with this, they don't come back for a second kick of the tires.

2026-01-31 16:09:26 UTC

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Bitcoin is killing nostr by making it unmarketable. The 99.x% churn rate is because of bitcoin more than any other factor. Newcomers are like "oh this is a bitcoin thing" and then they leave. Because they're not bitcoin people and never will be.
Nostr should never have made a faustian bargain with bitcoin.
If there is a nostr 2.0, it should not bake in bitcoin again.

2026-01-31 15:30:00 UTC

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The problem is nostr made a faustian bargain with bitcoin. That makes it essentially unmarketable to the masses.

2026-01-31 13:35:47 UTC

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"Bring them on"
They are not lining up to be brought on, that's kind of the whole point of the OP.

2026-01-30 20:46:48 UTC

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What sign of the apocalypse is this?
https://blossom.primal.net/5dfc23e9ece84a872a69c8360e7ff44ac8b47c7e14576c90b7b17cb3b8f82017.png

2026-01-29 04:30:01 UTC

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Get Alex some users, that's your job. At least 500. By Monday.

2026-01-29 02:47:00 UTC

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You don't have users, man. None of this AI has solved the one problem you need solving more than any other problem: users.

2026-01-26 09:56:35 UTC

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Nostr 1.0 is not the way. Close to every sys-admin at every major company right now has an order from above to get this "quantum migration stuff" done based on NIST depreciation timelines, and you're talking about evangelising Nostr, a protocol that has zero backwards compatibility if made quantum-secure? A pure burn and start again play?
I keep saying, there needs to be a 2.0, Nostr 1.0 is a good start but we need to let go.

2026-01-25 12:51:04 UTC

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Yeah and polar bears are irrelevant to seals.

2026-01-24 13:35:00 UTC

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The funny thing is those who will try and have their cake and eat it too.
"It'll never happen, but we should prepare anyway, even though of course it'll never happen, but what's the harm, and anyway it's just to satisfy the worrywarts, you know, but actually we don't care about the worrywarts, because they're wrong and we want them to know they're wrong, but let's appease them anyway, even though though deserve that, but anyway it'll never happen, and we need to send a strong signal of confidence that it will never happen, but still, just in case, let's prepare for it to happen!"
Most bitcoiners are going to end up making fools of themselves in this way.

2026-01-23 21:35:59 UTC

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Sure, but if it ends up on Primal's relay then Meta can sue Primal and will easily win. Especially if a Primal employee is behind it. No fair use defence there. Or just tell Apple and Apple will remove Primal for not having the appropriate systemic moderation tools.
This will not happen because all of Nostr is far too small for most on the Meta legal team to have even heard of what Nostr is, let alone Primal.
Still though, not a good idea. People need to start again.

2026-01-23 16:29:20 UTC

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Nah, it's flat out Napster 2.0.
Instagram owns the data, as per their terms. It's up to Meta not the user.
Better to encourage people to just start again.

2026-01-23 09:47:51 UTC

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Dude this is so illegal, good energy but please, yo, let's grow legally. Or mostly legally!

2026-01-23 09:46:21 UTC

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This is cool but so illegal.

2026-01-23 07:06:13 UTC

Raiden was designed to have the same theoretical throughput as the Lightning Network, via the same essential design. It's useful to look at Raiden's fate to understand some of the challenges facing Lightning, what's different, what's not.

2026-01-23 04:32:59 UTC

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loyal users are the new gold. there will be so many apps without loyal users, that even a few loyal users will put an app in the 1%.

2026-01-22 18:29:31 UTC

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Adoption AND retention https://image.nostr.build/b73300094e9782198aefb2d03cb6ce42e136172f36288ae5ffead65afde61723.png

2026-01-22 14:36:41 UTC

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Exactly, that ship has sailed.

2026-01-21 14:23:11 UTC

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fully-public kanban is wild
how did sheetstr attempt privacy? or did it?

2026-01-20 17:43:43 UTC

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just depends when. if you'd exchanged all your sats 10 years ago for ETH, as of today you'd have 15x more money than if you didn't do that. so you'd have won.

2026-01-08 12:23:29 UTC

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He's got significant proven oil reserves of his own.

2025-12-29 16:11:46 UTC

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I don't understand this loyalty to just one thing.
If you sold your bitcoin earlier in the year, bought silver, and then the other day sold your silver and bought back bitcoin then now you've got much MORE BITCOIN than if you'd just held.
Same as if you had 100 bitcoin ten years ago, sold them all and bought ETH, then today, ten years later, sold your ETH and bought back bitcoin, you'd have MORE (lots, lots more).
Trading is the way.
Ideologically-driven bear-hugging of any one instrument is just silly.

2025-12-28 18:58:28 UTC

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Exhibit B #nevent1q…0t4p

2025-12-05 08:10:14 UTC

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Except wrench attacks exist.
Many people these days so comfortable that the've forgotten how physical violence works.
Go back in time and ask a gold miner during the california gold rush how he feels about the invention of banks. Imagine the fear walking around the wild west with all the cash you got back for your gold in your pockets, and for months or years until you can get back home.
And no, wrench attackers don't give up and say "oh shucks" when you inform them you're on some multi-sig arrangement.