Love this take that Bitcoiners are a feature not a bug. Primal has led the way in integrating the features Bitcoiners have asked for while understanding that over time the content pool will expand.
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I'll offer an optimistic take on both of your concerns: 1. I believe that most nostr clients will implement some form of outbox support. All Primal clients certainly will. We are literally a few days from releasing a major update. Once users’ notes are spread out over hundreds (eventually thousands) of relays, client devs will be incentivized to upgrade their clients accordingly. It will take a bit of time, but that’s okay. 2. Nostr being seeded with bitcoiners is a feature, not a bug. To bootstrap a truly decentralized network, we need the initial group of users who understand decentralization and are willing to fight for it. There is no other way imho. The short term price we are paying is that the content is bitcoin-centric, but that’s fine. That will get sorted out over time as the network grows. IMO, we need to lower our time preference and be more patient. Everything is moving in the right direction. We don’t need a successor protocol. Nostr is the one we’ve been looking for.
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While I am a bitcoiner... I have no idea what I'm doing with with my relays but I'm certainly not intentionally blasting them for reach "incentives" or not. Better off if my notes are missed 😂
Most of my notes suck anyways lol. I try to bring diverse topics and talk about BTC maybe 10-15% of the time. I've learned more about privacy, freedom tech, mining, economics, policy navigation, some sweet conspiracies, good recipes, some homesteading, funny memes in abundance, tech guidance, linked with like minded vets, found some new books to read, and influenced to improve my fitness from nostr and just flat out interacted with cool people with less algorithmic toxicity than anywhere else.. While BTC was the main influencing factor that brought people here it's up to others to bring their interests and spew them out on the relays not for likes or says but just because, the zaps are a byproduct. It's up to the individual what they want to glean from their interaction and experience And how they want to focus on it. The protocol isn't doomed IMO.