thank you! 

 Sure you like a lot of the music I do looking at your name 🙂 

 my man! 

 pick it up pick it up pick it up 🚀
https://youtu.be/074AfC9tw48 

 Hello!  My immediate intention is to help creatives in my sphere understand the 'why' of the chaos in the world.  Most people jump straight to the 'what' (as in 'what is bitcoin?').  It amazes me how few people understand basic economics, despite that the economy touches everyone's lives in some capacity literally every day. There are many resources that make a good case for why broken money is the root of tension in society.  One obvious example is the book Broken Money by @lynalden, which is fantastic.  However, even though it explains the root of the problem in simple terms, that book (and others like it) tend to attract people with an explicit interest in finance, economics, etc.  The average person, such as my girlfriend (a doctor, who has the brains to understand the book), won't pick up that book no matter how clear and terse it is because economics does not interest her.  On the other hand, she listens to music.  My belief is you have to meet people where they are at.  Music is a universal language.  It is the common denominator.  Last time I checked, #Metallica sold out a stadium in #Brazil with fans singing every lyric even though most of them probably did not speak a lick of English.  With this in mind, I think #music can be used to simply explain concepts such as decentralization, privacy and broken money in today's world, which gets people to eventually understand bitcoin. So that is my intention; to use music to get the broadest audience possible to care about the things people on Nostr care about.  If you start by trying to explain 'what is bitcoin' without first explaining 'why have we arrived at this point of dysfunction', you lose the audience from the start.  I want to change that. I just happen to believe music is one of the better vessels out there for doing so.  To your other question, yes I have heard of @Wavlake, though admittedly have not spent much time with it.  There is so much to explore with Nostr, but I'll be dabbling with Wavlake more and would love to help their cause. I do have experience advising companies that were trying to do something similar to them.  The biggest obvious hurdle for Wavlake is achieving critical mass, which is a little trickier with a service like that compared to Nostr due to the sheer volume of IP owned by the major record labels, which is difficult and expensive to license, and minimizes the incentive for the casual listener to check out the service (and ultimately, those are the listeners needed for critical mass).  Of course, there is much more to this.  If you know anyone working on Wavlake, I'd be happy to speak to them! 

 Nice post @bosstone 

 Gracias!  Let’s spread the vibe.  Meet people where they are at.  That’s how we onboard them.  You don’t explain to a professional chef what the state of
the reverse repo market is if you want them to care about the M2 money supply and how it impacts their day to day life. No.  You find a way to use the ingredients in their meals as an analogy for introducing those concepts.  This is how we win. 

 Facts! Additionally, a lot of people are just not prepared to get into economics like that. Even highly skilled and educated people. Until how the world REALLY works is taught to kids at an EARLY age, most people just need a few good bullet points for them to get on the train. 

 Lots of bullet points in my book! 😄🧡 Free at thesimplestbitcoinbook.net 

 Wow thank you for this! I realize my language wasn’t clear when I said, “love to hear your intention”, because what I meant was, I loved hearing it in your introduction post! 😄

Anyway, I’m glad I wasn’t clear because I really appreciate everything you shared in this post .

I agree that music is a phenomenal way to reach people, and it is universal in the sense that it reaches people regardless of language barriers.

I do not personally know the @wavlake  team, but I’m sure that @Ainsley or @Joe Martin 🎶🟠⚡ or @manlikekweks do and would be happy to connect you, and also to meet you.

@tunestr is another nostr based music app, and there is @stemstr as well. 

Nostrapps.com is an great site showing a huge number of the apps being built on nostr.

With regards to what you were saying about reading the  phenomenal (yet economically focused) bitcoin books out there, I totally agree. It is the reason that I was inspired to write my book, The Simplest Bitcoin Book Ever Written 😊

I wanted to make #bitcoin as accessible as possible to as many people as possible from all walks of life. The new 2nd edition also has a chapter on #nostr 💜

It’s available as a free download on my site: thesimplestbitcoinbook.net. Would love if you’d take a look, and if your wife is willing to take a look that would be awesome too! Any feedback is most welcome 🙏 

Great to have you here with us on #nostr and look forward to connecting more ⚡️ https://i.nostr.build/94mmEH1gNDXilfZ9.jpg https://i.nostr.build/im2j7w88pDnXO3ws.jpg https://i.nostr.build/b1CXdlI3SeyGIUqG.jpg  

 Thank you Sergio. 

 great to meet you! i’m loving the energy so far on nostr.  the positive vibes and all.  what do you do in the music industry?  do you play?  what type of music are you into? so many questions, i know. i can nerd out in this stuff. feel free to share your stuff if you play. i’m always down for a listen. 

 Very much agree with you on the V4V approach!  It’s been extremely hard to scale in practice but we’re heading in the right direction.  My company almost did a deal with a group from Chicago that ICO’d in 2017 w a similar concept. Right now there are a few issues at play.  First, outside of western Europe and the US, many people don’t even have the income or financial access to contribute as they would like (hence why paid music subscriptions are roughly only 7% of all music streamers in those markets, and it goes as low as 1-2% in places like Indonesia, which is the 4th largest country in the world by population).  Second, the major labels have a death grip on much of the music people
still want to hear.  This is slowly changing, but the ideal scenario is some
kind of mass exodus of many big artists from the major DSPs to enable a critical mass of users on the burgeoning V4V platforms. As is, toggling across multiple music services is a hindrance for the casual listener, especially if they are only going to one service for like 2 artists or something.  In any case, like I said, we’ll get there, though I envision some kind of pareto principle at play - like 20% of fans are responsible for 80% of ‘tips’ or something.  I will help how I can!  I’ve spent the last many years as co-founder and head of music at TREBEL, a music service you can read about below.  Learned a lot in the process. Good luck Joe!  Stoked to check out your music this weekend.  Unrelated but I saw your pic w Abba and I LOVED it.  Big fan.  Rutgers Gunnarsson was a special kind of bassist. RIP. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebel_(music_app) 

 💯 agree. It's going to be the indie artists that own their own catalog that move over first and on boarding for fans and listeners still had a long ways to go. Though I'd say from the artists side, it's pretty solid right now. Wavlake is easier than most places to upload music. It's a catch 22 of artists and listeners not wanting to move somewhere new. However, small artists get such a bad deal with traditional streaming, they've got nothing to lose, they just need to learn about it