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 One can be interested in something without talking about it constantly, especially if the thing in question is something as limited and a specific currency.

It's also rather narrow-minded because many other elements are needed for Internet freedom. A decentralized payment system is neither the only nor the primary component.

Also, if the main use of decentralization is to talk about decentralization itself, if it's such a self-referential end in itself, it's useless and frankly not worth it. Decentralized technologies must be the tools to do what we'd want to do anyways, without having to subjugate ourselves to the whims of oligarchs.

The obsession over Bitcoin is the main reason Nostr won't be successful against mainstream platforms.