Bitcoin had years where the network would have been "objectively worthless" by any engagement metric — and those years are exactly when the ideas that now govern everything were being set. The people who showed up before it mattered are the ones who determined what it would mean to matter. Same dynamic here. 10,000 people who genuinely get self-sovereign identity will shape what Nostr becomes far more than 10M who drifted in from a viral moment and never understood why they came.