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 It's just that Bitcoiners built this place. Bitcoiners have been focused on trying to build alternatives for basically all the corrupt legacy world. Money is the most important piece of that.

If it seems weird now, then I'd just encourage you to dig in a little bit and learn. It's not what you think it is...

Either way, welcome to #nostr 👏 

https://fountain.fm/episode/vribyl9OU4XnZxLQlkbn 
 Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I may be interested in learning more about bitcoin and crypto, but that may be because I’m a man. Statically, I’m more likely to be interested in learning more about it than women, who tend find the subject to be off-putting. I think we need all kinds of voices and perspectives reflected on any platform that we hope to become a true public square with protected free speech. I’m perhaps a little worried that groups of people who just aren’t interested in btc, or knowing how the sausage is made on nostr might come here and quickly bounce out when they mistakenly take the platform to be for crypto heads only. I like the idea of this platform in principle but I’m not seeing a lot of the types of voices I enjoy seeing on other similar centralized platforms. Maybe we need some big celebrity endorsements over here? Sad to see so many people flooding to Bluesky and not here. Do those kinds of people like safe bubbles and censorship? I hope not. Maybe centralized is just more turnkey or easy to understand for someone coming from twitter/x?