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 When we #grownostr, we not only grow user adoption and expand the current conversation, we also aim to help people understand Nostr, too. Education is key here, because nothing like Nostr has ever existed before and it's hard to grasp just how powerful the ownership of one's entire social digital identity truly can be. Having a portable digital social identity unlocks new experiences like never before. My mission is to make as many people as possible understand this concept. 🫂💜🤙🏻 
 I’m sure you’ve done a good job, friend Ross. Everyone here has played a very important role, in my view. Nostr is powerful! So powerful that it haunts other networks, if commented on it in other environments. There is no doubt that the present future is the protocols in people’s lives. Tell me more about your ambitions for us and if it is possible to help you, in this expansive process?! 
 Growing the conversation via word of mouth can only work for so long. We need some large creators to adopt and talk about Nostr. I think that they would love this concept, being able to have the same followers across various apps. They don't have that now. Some are only "big" on certain platforms. What if if their audiences were similar across all apps they use? Game changing IMO. 
 It would take courage to get out of your comfort zones, if not, lower the ego ruler, to start from scratch here. But you gave me some ideas!

I know some big finance profiles, which somehow are adept at #bitcoin and can help us with that... I’ll talk to them about it! I hope I’m lucky. 
 Oh I don't mind talking to people. My comfort zone is very large 🤣 I'll talk to anyone. 
 t-y D/ 
 You are doing great 🔥🔥🔥 
 Thank you 😊 
 We have a very simlar problem in "personal server / solid state interpreter VM" land at https://vaporware.network. novel technologies and social paradigms require explaining the concept from many different angles at once; often letting the concept sit with the audience and then beginning again later.  
Most crucial, I've found, is _individual discussion_ where you find the mental footholds **this person** already has, and then keying off of those. This doesn't scale, and probably can't, until the novel thing in question begins to take on the status of "more common meme". (and then at that point you have a new challenge: disabusing the audience of the false impressions they have of "that meme'! lol)