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 Nostr allows us to have a portable digital social identity that we truly own. nostr:nprofile1qqs2xs05tluhtr6hpgsmqqxp04898gayjlyrjlexcrndv8j6el784xqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq42ldx hasn't posted on Nostr in 5 months. He announced his digital ID on May 1st, nearly 5 months ago. 
 Wait you mean I can have a digital id administered by a for profit entity??! Why would I want one in control myself.  IM OUTTA HERE! 
 Good luck? 😬 
 Weeeeee! 
 That's weird. I know he loves elon and x, but he is positive and community oriented, wich makes nostr an important place to be for him. Maybe he thinks is too raw or that it might fade? Anyway, I wonder what is his thoughts about zaps. 
 Still waiting for him to send a zap. https://i.nostr.build/S9b8yEeflqUQYlVJ.jpg 
 Why did people send him so many sats? 
 A thou isn't much, but people tend to have an irrational bias for rewarding celebrities. 
 It's like he doesn't want to be a member of the community, he just wants to accumulate and tell the rest of us to F off.  That's a very fiat mindset. 
 I also wanna get zapped by him 
 If you be zapping, you ain't HODLing 
 Nobody's perfect 
 Obviously not a support of “this” type of Freedom  
 But  @Derek Ross, it is also correct that Nostr allows us also to have a portable digital social identity that allows us to be anyone, right?
Looking at the  @saylor profile you mention and the posts that are done, I can hardly believe that this is THE Michael Saylor. Michael doesn't strike me like the kind of guy that posts generated bitcoin images all the time. 
My thinking is that the followers of that profile purely comes from the fact that someone created this profile early, and managed to get enough followers to get the snowball rolling. If this is the case, the real Michael Saylor might have a hard time building a web of trust later on.

But I'm very new on Nostr, so there might have been some back and forth in the beginning when that profile was created to establish that is actually is THE Michael Saylor. 
Funny enough, one of the first private messages I received after creating my profile on Nostr was from.... Michael Saylor himself! After my first surprise, I realized that fake accounts exist on Nostr 😄   
 This is him. His Nostr address for hope.com used to be valid. He deleted the nostr.json verification file. I talked to him about Nostr briefly at Bitcoin 2023 too. 
 Crazy... I try to picture him creating some bitcoin related images with Dall-E for a few months and sharing them on nostr. That's not the real image I have of him (pun intended).
 
 We need to get 5% yield on our digital social identity for it to interest him.