Oddbean

I’m actually a person who didn’t care about bitcoin in the slightest before nostr. https://i.nostr.build/sxOBhFUM3LoHP02n.jpg https://i.nostr.build/fkXtekGGVdgVTFUx.jpg https://i.nostr.build/YMDYpVaiEnEBP9Ek.jpg

Well I wrote out the second draft of the Bible for him. lol What a weird ass doomer energy to not believe in bitcoin enough to see that if someone was exposed on nostr for the first time that they’d fall in love with it.

💯 Just judging from those screenshots, he sounds like one of those people on X who thinks nostr is simply a new play thing for bitcoiners and everyone will eventually come back to X. Slowly but surely he and others like that will figure it out.

#Nostr allowed many to feel #bitcoin more real and "tangible". Some used it for the first time not just to stack sats in a cold wallet, many bitcoiners OG discovered and tried #lightning for the first time.. this is so underrated.

Zaps, consistent Bitcoin content from my follows highlighting the values and core principles, recommendations of Bitcoin books (Broken Money by @LynAlden, learning valuable lessons such as the intentionality of inflation), education from @The: Daniel⚡️ through @Harlem ₿itcoin 🗽🧡 events and learning Bitcoin Spot ETFs, etc.

Aww, enjoy! I'll put the whole thing on nostr eventually. nostr:nprofile1qqsv2nuuvq55egyqd2r0fd2ppx8nl006j03llf02275qv42r0s6zfxspr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9u9jyqcs Just need to find the time. One day... 🐰

I was trying to make this point recently. nostr:nprofile1qqspzmj0when3rfm5puvh9femp6crdgwdhlvnxvjjssqghlu7fzvc7gpp3mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7qg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsnfuef7 nostr:nprofile1qqs9val6td43edk4hmnct5yg4yzv6zqgy4ft7awl8eps9n4qzkja8cgpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uev4hqk nostr:nprofile1qqsvu0pst48khhssvz7rrylp7x8nvxwmhkvnpqk6tqu06azfr6sau6cppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjt3s0p3ksct59e3k7mf0q9z8wue69uhk5et5w3ck5ct2v4skuet0wfkxjetdxa38senrwdk85mmpva4hsamkxd3xxc3k09k8xar0w4mry6rpdearycmjvackgtn0de5k7m30smmqup nostr:nprofile1qqs9ccktnl7c4fcfrvyemxqfgs5a9gj8q8hm0h4ed3wt36xl0dpf7ygpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skueqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejscg0f2u nostr:nprofile1qqs2zd3y0kx27l3shaqr6vsqd7hv5ryarnk859s8teq59sh76m9ducqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0fjv339

Nostr content needs to move beyond Bitcoin to attract more nocoiners. I've been engaging almost exclusively with non Bitcoin, non financial content for this reason. Everyone here today has the opportunity to be the foundation of whatever community they want to grow on nostr. Send out that signal and the nostr algorithm will find you. Move to where the future is going. Bitcoin and nostr. Post and live as if they are both already globally adopted. Don't waste your most scarce resource, your time, promoting either one. Sheep wake up when the wolves get danger close. The evils of this world will do the purple and orange pilling for us. The more involved I become, the more I look at my notes as a personal diary that I can pass on to my kid(s), preserved on my self hosted relay for as long as they want to remember me without the need to trust any corporation, data profiteering models, etc. All the other stuff being built on nostr is just extra. Live your best life, share what you want on nostr. ✌️🧡

In a world where going viral and making money has become a top priority, there will be a tiny few who genuinely want to express themselves freely and unconditionally. They will hopefully also be problem solvers to humanity’s biggest challenges.

Before deactivating my twitter account, I had already deleted most of my content from 2018-2024. It was the stuff from 2007-2017 that was most interesting. I started a few farmers market stalls. Opened a restaurant. Changed jobs. Got into Bitcoin mining. Went on holidays to Europe....But it was never my data was it...

Zaps made it easy to get started, to actually have some bitcoin, that was the key. Once you start looking into it, Bitcoin sells itself. In January last year I had never held a coin. Now I've got a Bitaxe being delivered today 😂

I was fortunate. I've used Linux and open source software for a long time. I know what a GitHub is. I was already familiar with how keys work from ssh. This is some basic knowledge I think made using Nostr and Bitcoin easier for me.