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 Hmm good question, what do you think?

I'm mostly focused on nostr's use case as a communications tool, in which I expect the monotopic problem to be resolved by different means of content/people exploration, i.e. the choice of algorithms. There's a big difference between users coming for (bitcoin or other) content, and users coming to try something new, bound together by interests in freedom tech, self-sovereignty, an social experience uncontrolled by big tech, etc. Typically early adopters and innovators are defined by the will to be early and try something new before anyone else, and their technical proficiency, regardless of their preferred content. In this case this overlaps much with the typical bitcoiner.

The other stuff, and other use cases, each have their own composition of early adopter users, which is too grand to simply think through, as it requires measuring and research on what they actually value, which communication channels are optimal for reaching them, and which niche of that segment is open for a significantly better solution than the current alternative they're using, and how strong a position those competitors hold.