What is Nostr?
bostonwine / Boston Wine
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2025-01-09 01:56:23
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bostonwine on Nostr: If I had to guess, it’s because early nostr adopters (like bitcoiners) are ...

If I had to guess, it’s because early nostr adopters (like bitcoiners) are ideologically-driven and trying to improve and change the world.

It seems like more and more people are recognizing that a blockchain is not a great foundation for most “crypto” use cases. It’s slow, clunky, hard to change. Which is exactly what you want to have underpinning a new global monetary system. But a semi-centralized “world computer”, maybe not.

Bitcoin exists to change everything about the world we live in for the better. Nostr has a similar ethos.

Ethereum, even if you believe it has value, seems like much more of a tech project, with various close competitors, and may well follow in the footsteps of AOL and AskJeeves, if/when other “crypto” projects do the same thing better.

IMO, it’s less a matter of subjectivity, and more a question of scale. Bitcoin is unique, and freedom tech is a movement. It’s a meaningfully different system from the investment-tech-token-financialization playground that the broader “crypto industry” inhabits. My two sats ✌️
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