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 I made over 10k satoshis writing a piece about my trip to El Salvador on NOSTR.  NOSTR ONLY! 
 I believe the promise/potential on nostr is far beyond what X can do, but I think something needs to jumpstart it. I wonder if organic growth is going to happen fast enough and with enough scale.  
 The amount that's been accomplished in just the year Ive been here is so impressive I have no doubt it will continue to thrive.  In the meantime, I've met some amazing people, had a few laughs, and participated in a burgeoning bitcoin economy.  Since I'm not a programmer, I'll just be thankful for now and zap until my sack is empty. 
 I am committed to nostr. This is where I post and create. It has progressed exponentially in the past 2 years. I hope that continues and I’m confident that it will. Just observing the reality of what other platforms are offering and thinking what it will take for nostr to compete for attention. Creators will bring audiences. How can we appeal to creators financially? It would be cool to see a cashapp or similar company throw some real money into sponsoring creators/artists to devote themselves to nostr and try to bring their audiences here.  
 Its hard because on the one hand creatives have to give some shit away for free to get interest and then paywall other shit to paid.  As with everything, sponsorship will wiggle its way in as participation grows which will generate money and more participation.  I want a world where creatives can thrive so I can enjoy their outputs.  I can imagine sponsoring something I'm into in the future.  Maybe an OpenSats-type fund for creatives would be cool.  An Endowment for NOSTR Art 
 My thinking is along the same lines.  
 Rather be here making nothing.  knowing what they do and how they're using  X  accounts. Now crypto .com merging with X. Free premium subscription if you use crypto .com credit card soon the Twitter we loved will just be a government agents social wallet app and slowy fade away like fakebook did....No thanks #nostr #bitcoin  
 Do you work for a living at a fiat job?  
 No way Jose, I'm a starving artist trying to stack sats and I volunteer caretake for 85 year old elderly alzheimers dementia patient family. We live on set income and get fkd around by the fiat scaming ass bankers. I turn every dollar of fiat I can into #bitcoin and put all over the place. Fuck fiat. lol