Oddbean

Recently I've been over on Threads which as you know is the almighty Zucks attempt to crush twitter Seriously it's blowing up over there, the traction is astonishing But the reason I mention it because someone referenced Jack on threads and Nostr It got quite a bit of engagement and loads of folks were asking what is notr? What is notstr? The issue is, if they send these normies over here to see what's happening What are they gonna find? A bunch of psycho bitcoin maxis talking in borderline code Not being funny but they won't hang around long will they! Am I wrong? Tell me

You're not wrong, but imagine if the Rothschild's had social media in the 1760's? If "normies" back then had joined the conversation, they wouldn't have a clue what they were talking about, but by the 19th Century everybody knew what a bank was and most people used one. There are non Bitcoin citadels (relays) on NOSTR, but for the moment, we mostly talk Bitcoin because we are still early. It's interesting what @petermccormack is doing. He's rebranded his podcast as a general discussion forum, but every area he looks at will be from a Bitcoiners perspective and he will discuss Bitcoin with experts in different fields. I think Peter is right, it is time to move the discussion into the real world and talk about Bitcoin in the context of everyday life. I think NOSTR will gradually evolve to emulate this sentiment.

FOSS is a whole different argument that I am not engaged in enough to understand, let alone discuss. I suspect, however, that most Bitcoin devs won’t need to worry about money after this bull run , and certainly not after the next halvings bull run .