bitcoin.rocks on Nostr: The blue check is gone Thanks #[1] for showing me the light 💡 The following ...
The blue check is gone
Thanks ODELL (npub1qny…95gx) for showing me the light 💡
The following explains my reasoning, and was just posted on Twitter:
This month’s bitcoin sticker contest marks the end of our journey here on Twitter.
One year ago, bitcoin.rocks was born out of a desire to accelerate Bitcoin adoption. I launched a simple educational website to make it easier to orange pill people when they ask about Bitcoin. Naturally, I came to Bitcoin Twitter to spread the word.
A couple months later, I launched our free Bitcoin stickers to allow anyone to put an orange pill in public that links to our educational bitcoin website. Since then, I have been blown away by everyone who has gotten involved. Whether you’ve put 1 sticker in public or 1,000 — thank you. You have helped accelerate Bitcoin adoption!
40,000 stickers and 1 year later, it’s with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to Bitcoin Twitter. But this is not a goodbye to you, only a goodbye to centralized services which seek to surveil us, profit from our content, and invade our subconscious.
Our sticker contests are not going anywhere. They’re just moving to a place without surveillance. A place without censorship. A place where I can maintain the valuable connections I’ve built here without fear of someone flipping a switch and taking that all away.
All of our sticker competitions, sticker bounties, and communication is moving to Nostr.
Nostr is not just another social media website. Nostr, like Bitcoin, is a decentralized protocol —not a centralized platform. Bitcoin allows me to truly own my money and spend it without fear of censorship. Nostr allows me to truly own my social connections and speak without fear of censorship.
But why? Why not continue to post on Twitter *and* Nostr?
Because, in the words of Disclosure: “WHERE YOUR FOCUS GOES, YOUR ENERGY FLOWS”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoZ5opH51lA
Just like I do not wish to put any of my energy into the centralized financial system, I do not wish to put any of my energy into a centralized communication platform.
You may be reading this thinking that you will never be censored here. But one day, you will. And when that happens, all of the energy you have poured into your content and following will be gone in the blink of an eye. Your business can be destroyed overnight. Your strong social community can be erased in an instant. This is true of all centralized platforms.
But on decentralized protocols like Nostr, all of the energy you pour into your content and following are yours forever. No one can take them from you. No one can silence your voice.
Joining Nostr is incredibly easy. If you can download an app, you can download a Nostr client and experience all that Nostr has to offer. Here’s a simple guide: https://bitcoin.rocks/nostr
Once you’ve downloaded your Nostr client, search our npub to follow us there: npub18kpw3akvdsyk239lx0jgwksr74sq4nlha3r8u9g2rnrhztfpfhysy469c4
Thank you all so much for making the first year of the bitcoin.rocks journey so fun, exciting, and rewarding. I hope you will all join me for the next year in the one place aligned with the values of what brought us all here in the first place: Bitcoin.
Thanks ODELL (npub1qny…95gx) for showing me the light 💡
The following explains my reasoning, and was just posted on Twitter:
This month’s bitcoin sticker contest marks the end of our journey here on Twitter.
One year ago, bitcoin.rocks was born out of a desire to accelerate Bitcoin adoption. I launched a simple educational website to make it easier to orange pill people when they ask about Bitcoin. Naturally, I came to Bitcoin Twitter to spread the word.
A couple months later, I launched our free Bitcoin stickers to allow anyone to put an orange pill in public that links to our educational bitcoin website. Since then, I have been blown away by everyone who has gotten involved. Whether you’ve put 1 sticker in public or 1,000 — thank you. You have helped accelerate Bitcoin adoption!
40,000 stickers and 1 year later, it’s with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to Bitcoin Twitter. But this is not a goodbye to you, only a goodbye to centralized services which seek to surveil us, profit from our content, and invade our subconscious.
Our sticker contests are not going anywhere. They’re just moving to a place without surveillance. A place without censorship. A place where I can maintain the valuable connections I’ve built here without fear of someone flipping a switch and taking that all away.
All of our sticker competitions, sticker bounties, and communication is moving to Nostr.
Nostr is not just another social media website. Nostr, like Bitcoin, is a decentralized protocol —not a centralized platform. Bitcoin allows me to truly own my money and spend it without fear of censorship. Nostr allows me to truly own my social connections and speak without fear of censorship.
But why? Why not continue to post on Twitter *and* Nostr?
Because, in the words of Disclosure: “WHERE YOUR FOCUS GOES, YOUR ENERGY FLOWS”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoZ5opH51lA
Just like I do not wish to put any of my energy into the centralized financial system, I do not wish to put any of my energy into a centralized communication platform.
You may be reading this thinking that you will never be censored here. But one day, you will. And when that happens, all of the energy you have poured into your content and following will be gone in the blink of an eye. Your business can be destroyed overnight. Your strong social community can be erased in an instant. This is true of all centralized platforms.
But on decentralized protocols like Nostr, all of the energy you pour into your content and following are yours forever. No one can take them from you. No one can silence your voice.
Joining Nostr is incredibly easy. If you can download an app, you can download a Nostr client and experience all that Nostr has to offer. Here’s a simple guide: https://bitcoin.rocks/nostr
Once you’ve downloaded your Nostr client, search our npub to follow us there: npub18kpw3akvdsyk239lx0jgwksr74sq4nlha3r8u9g2rnrhztfpfhysy469c4
Thank you all so much for making the first year of the bitcoin.rocks journey so fun, exciting, and rewarding. I hope you will all join me for the next year in the one place aligned with the values of what brought us all here in the first place: Bitcoin.