I’m old enough to remember when people actually worked on and talked about Bitcoin but instead we have OpenSats putting more funding into nostr than bitcoin. We have devs fixated on nostr. We have Max Hillebrand spewing nonsense about how nostr is more impactful than Bitcoin. And it all just sounds like people pumping their bags because they invested in nostr projects or they don’t wanna have to work a fiat job to stack sats so they shill nostr to fleece people. 

Nostr is fun. It’s good for censorship resistance. People making it out as more than it is just reeks of corruption. 

No one talks about the fucking privacy nightmare that is Nostr. It’s literally a fucking panopticon. It takes one fed running a popular relay to completely undo people’s Opsec. We have people using DVMs which broadcast your data and metadata to the whole fucking world. And the so called privacy people shill it nonetheless bc they either don’t review the code or they can’t and they’re just blindly following.

And instead we just have people unequivocally shilling the shit out of it. It’s insane. And it’s blasphemous to say that Nostr is anywhere near as impactful as bitcoin. It’s the definition of affinity scam. If the devs put their heads down for the next half decade it’ll be 1/10th as impactful. And that’ll be pretty good and I’ll tip my cap.

When people say shit like nostr fixes this or “freedom tech” I just hear pure grift from people trying to profit off of the Current Nostr Thing. 

Just be normal and shill it one out of every five posts and I won’t say anything. 

We need our eyes on the prize which is hyperbitcoinization.