The “Platform” influencer with ten million followers has no way to contact those people if the platform disappears or bans them. They have a number on a screen, not a relationship. This is why influencers live in constant fear of algorithm changes and platform policy shifts. They’ve built their livelihood on rented land, and the landlord is capricious. Nostr…because reliance on a platform introduces a single point of failure, and single point systems fail deterministically. Your turn…Nostr, because…?

If you’re in Nostr or Bitcoin spaces just to broadcast your genius takes, you’re missing the point entirely. You’re bringing platform logic to a post platform world. The opportunity isn’t to recreate Twitter without censorship. It’s to build something genuinely different. A network where relationships are primary and protocol is supporting infrastructure. This means engaging deeply rather than broadly. It means consistent presence over viral moments. It means being useful to specific people rather than impressive to everyone. It means showing up when there’s no attention to be gained. It means understanding that the person you help troubleshoot their Lightning node today might be the relay operator who keeps your content available tomorrow. The person you have a thoughtful disagreement with might become a collaborator on a project next year. The small community you invest time in might become the trusted network that provides opportunity and support for decades. These aren’t transactions. They’re relationships. And relationships are what survive when everything else fails. The technology gets us out of the trap. The relationships are why we’ll never need to go back in.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

People who run around Nostr starting fires every day are like arsonists who think they’re firefighters. They mistake chaos for contribution, convinced the smoke means something important is happening. But all they’re really doing is burning down the spaces where actual conversations could grow. And then they wonder why everyone keeps their distance while they’re standing there alone with a box of matches.

Nostr has no boardroom, no fundraising rounds, no central authority to impress. It’s raw coordination…code and ideas converging toward freedom. The builders here aren’t chasing capital, they’re architecting autonomy. We are not users. We are participants in the rewrite of the internet’s social layer. This is what early feels like.

Besides Bitcoin ATMs, which charge outlandish fees, how else can I covert my cash into Bitcoin. @jack s CashApp only allows $1k per 7 days. I want to do this asap. How many peeps actually do P2P transactions and is it legit and/or safe? Or other suggestions? #asknostr