I agree completely. 

I try not to approach these chats from an antagonistic place, if I want to have any positive/useful impact. I’d rather the person want to have another conversation with me, than never want to see me again lol

My quote above was a bit tongue-in-cheek; when I actually talk to crypto folks about Nostr, I approach it from a place of (assumed) shared excitement about decentralized communication, building cool tech, etc… Even if their motivations are often more fiat-minded, I try to assume the best.

So really it would be (and has been) more like this:

“Have you heard of nostr? It uses crypto to secure your identity and social graph, and integrates seamlessly with Bitcoin Lightning, so that people can build payments and exchange value, and it’s a very inspired community! Nostr is also completely open, so if someone wanted to build a nostr interface with other cryptocurrencies, they could, but we’re finding that Bitcoin works nicely for the money, and allows people to focus on building new awesome tools”.


Something like that 🫡