My Nostr predictions for 2025
Exactly one year ago I published my Nostr predictions for 2024. Some came true, but most were, shall we say, aspirational, and, if we want to be generous, directionally correct. Happy to continue in the same vein and go out on a limb for 2025. Here we go, ordered by likelihood of coming true:
1. Primal will become much, MUCH better. Primal 3.0 will be a bigger leap forward than Primal 2.0 was. We will surprise everyone by the features, speed, level of polish, and ease of use.
2. Many other Nostr clients will impress by their progress in a relatively short time frame. If I had to pick one, I have a really good feeling about Highlighter.
3. Way more bitcoiners will join Nostr. While we currently only have a small subset of bitcoin enjoyers on Nostr, the new features and unique content will make Nostr irresistible to anyone interested in bitcoin.
4. Bitcoin-adjacent communities will start to discover and join Nostr. This will include health & wellness, financial twitter, human rights, libertarians, and other communities. As a result, the network will grow and become more formidable.
5. Spammers gonna spam. With the growth of the network, spammers will return in force. They will be sophisticated and relentless, putting all of our spam mitigation services to the test.
6. The Blossom protocol will make media hosting on Nostr much more robust and resistant to censorship.
7. Long form content will start to hit its stride on Nostr. This includes textual long form content (blogs, essays, articles, etc.) as well as long form video content.
8. Multiple Nostr projects will find effective and ethical ways to monetize, marking a watershed moment for the protocol. We will witness the formation of the first cohort of real businesses on Nostr, signaling the inevitable changing of the guard and the eventual extinction of the Legacy Web.
9. Nostr will experience a glimpse of what a ‘suddenly’ mainstream adoption moment looks like.
10. By the end of the year, everyone - even the haters - will realize that Nostr is going to win.
11.
@ODELL will accuse me of not being bullish enough.
One thing is certain: we will keep pushing until we will this thing into existence. 🤝
Anyhow, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Pura Vida, and Peace and Love to you all! ♥️☀️
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GA Fren that's a great note. I want to wish you a Happy Christmas 🎄 and God bless you and your family 🙏
I’m happy I grabbed my year of
@primal
Bullish for 2025 ⚡️
Humble bullishness, I like it. 👌😎
The future is bright
This is an Awesome outlook. I would love for this to come in fruition as
@primal nostr really have a potential impact to change the way we use social media network with the integration of #Bitcoin LN. I hope the next wave of user adoption will come from Primal #nostr. You can count on us #Bitcoiners that we will continue to educate more people onboarding this new decentralized system. 🙏⚡️💜🧡
Keep up the great work 💜🫂
Can we rebrand 3.0 as “NOW that’s what I call Freedom 3”?
A feature that would be completely amazing on Nostr would be the ability to create a knowledge graph of your posts, actions, zaps and network. Being able to see it as a 2D or even 3D view of who we are connecting with, how those connections interact, and what our network looks like.
Buon Natale, Miljan!
what if there was no gif button
What you don't know is there will probably be p2p relays that actually relay in the next year, unless the deep state kills me before I can finish and publish my specs (easy for them to do because I'm lazy)
Merry Christmas 🫂🎅🔥🧑🎄🙌🏻☃️🎄
There’s a lot we don’t know about Nostr. That’s the fun part!
Love the number 9! Thank you for making freedom tech advance by the leaps!
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#Nostr is everything we don't know about freedom and disruptive tech mixed with all we don't know about social positive interactions and engagement.
#growNostr
i love the red heart in the end ❤️🤣
Can’t wait, well done and Merry Christmas 🎄
Bullish. 🧡🫂
looking at my oracle, i can see some of them going to absolutely happen... 😵💫🔮
😭😭😭
Beautiful and ima thankful you and many others are here. Appreciated 🙏
11 is a daily achievement
I think it will not just be Bitcoiners who willjoin nostr.
I think everyone who values truth will want and NEED to be here, whether they have gone down the monetary rabbit hole or not.
Libertarians are already here. Merry Christmas 🫂
Amazing, thank you. Here's to a great 2025
My prediction is you,
@ODELL and
@npub1s5yq...6q7z will follow me here which in turn give me no option but to become a primal legend 🤷🏻♂️
amezing 👌
Will fact check this Christmas 2025
May your positive words rooted in the power of your abilities and your team be strongly fertilized - because there is always a lot of power in our “words”. Nostr has a lot of value to be unlocked, and this drive is happening in time; robust and disruptive. All those who join us here will have their value multiplied, as a growing and self-impact community for the other environments - which will inevitably use our clone metrics for their still resistant environments!
Let 2025 come, here I am - and there we will be.
Growth happens in the space of bewilderment, vamos!
NOSTR is the BTC of communication!
I’ve come in and out of nostr for years… what’s your advice for how to get integrated and find other ways to use this outside of thinking of it like Twitter?
Oh I think that would be amazing
Love these directions and possibilities
Spam is a massive problem. As a consequence, I don't see free relays being feasible long term.
It’s make sense
It’s make sense
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We will help in what is possible within our reach!
Salute 🫡 🇺🇸
Let’s go with everything! We are all primal, we are all one.
This note is really generous and very motivating! I like teams like this, with not only the ability to do - but with fidelity to the project.
Merry Christmas to you, too!
Excited to be here 👊
Just bring us the answers we thought we didn’t need - but after discoveries; we realize the value of your existence!
Enjoy being a part of the move forward and to witness the changes.
what a great time to be alive🙏
My problem with Nostr is that most of the people post just some technical stuff about Nostr and something about protocols which is very boring.
prediction :
there will be nostr conferences and as usual will gain more active users for few days.
@npub1sn0w...jdv9 will post few notes on nostr again in 2025 then goes back posting on twitterX (again).
i will find a suitcase full of cash and doenst buy b1tc01n at all from it
Merry Christmas 🎅🎄🎁🍊🍪🫂☃️❄️🤙
4. 🔑 imho - a place where other amazing communities naturally come to hang but is unique and different than the other social media experiences
Agree with #4 especially
Love it 🔥. Buon anno a tutti 🇮🇹
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Let's go 🚀
LFG 🔥🫡
Long live Nostr and awesome work!
NOSTR ONLY 🔥💜🫡
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Merry Christmas, and PV !!!
#NOSTRICH 🫡
Your 2025 predictions are 🔥🫡 ! Here’s my take on a few of them:
• Primal’s leap forward: I’m pumped to see what Primal 3.0 brings. If it’s as transformative as you predict, it could redefine expectations for what a Nostr client can achieve.
• Bitcoiners and adjacent communities: Spot on. As the network grows, the mix of bitcoiners and like-minded groups will amplify Nostr’s cultural and intellectual diversity. It’ll be fascinating to watch these communities shape the platform in real time.
• Spam challenges: You nailed it—scaling comes with growing pains, and spam is inevitable. But seeing how creative the Nostr community has been, I’m confident we’ll rise to the challenge.
. Monetization and real businesses: This could be the game-changer. Once ethical monetization models emerge, it’ll be impossible for skeptics to ignore the viability of Nostr as a true web alternative.
. Mainstream adoption moment: Even a small “suddenly” could validate so much of the hard work and belief people have put into Nostr. That moment can’t come soon enough!
And finally,
@ODELL probably will say you’re not bullish enough, but these predictions already have me fired up. Cheers to a big 2025! 🫡
Very Nicely 🔥 🫡
Wise Predictions 🫡
But when in Zap going live for Canadians? Do we have to kick JT out of office first?
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#11… too easy 🤣
LFG 🔥💜
Amazing 🫡
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+1 Prediction: Nostr identities will eventually replace usernames and emails in many decentralized, and even traditional, web applications! 😎
Another idea. What if the primal logo was more dynamic, perhaps reflecting how strong the connection is between device and the relays we have on our network list. If it shows green, we have a good connection, if it shows red, there's something going on. This would be more useful than our profile icon on mobile, and would always be visible on the web app.
This can't happen soon enough.
Love the work
@primal is doing…love it so much I became a paying subscriber. Proud to have been a part of Nostr for a couple years now, and Primal since the beginning.
Thanks for the work
@miljanMerry Christmas, Pura vida, Feliz navidad y prospero año nuevo. ✊
Merry Christmas! Can’t wait to see what ships in 2025 🚀
@ODELL would tell you now but he's waiting for January 1st XD
Peace and love to you too
I hope other platforms like X will integrate Nostr Protocol
BULLISH ON NOSTR
STAY HUMBLE AND STACK ZAPS
Marathon not sprint 💯
Bookmarked !
@miljan looking into 2025 and onwards, i think what @primal and, by extension, Nostr need is better marketing and onboarding experiences.
Like for example, i entered Primal's website after a Google search and I arrived on a not so user friendly feed, with no explanation of what the service actually is and what it provides. Why not add a brief sexy marketing front page which describes what Primal is for new comers? Which would then also provide a more pleasing call to action to sign up? Maybe also explaining the Nostr Connect alternative, which btw i still don't understand how to use and which key storage services currently exist. And I am already a Nostr user, so how do you expect new people to understand how all of this works?
Anyway, my point is, you've done a wonderful job so far of creating a beautifully crafted Nostr app and service, but if you want it to succeed, somebody needs to deploy ample amounts of money and bring in some brilliant marketing minds in order to push this project further. Otherwise it will end up in a similar fashion as Ubuntu/Linux on desktop did. Used only by fanboys and never becoming mainstream.
will be easy to post gifs on nostr
WE ARE GOING TO WIN SO HARD
What's it gonna be for the upcoming year?
