In his Take from yesterday, Frank invited bitcoiners to affix Nostr: “The world’s largest bitcoin round economic system.” I endorse this invitation; Nostr aligns significantly better with Bitcoin’s authentic values than — particularly — Elon Musk’s X.
In a lot the identical means that the cash in your checking account isn’t actually yours, your posts on X aren’t both — in distinction, your Nostr posts are linked to your personal public key. Like PayPal blocking cash transfers, X can resolve to censor what it’s a must to say, however no single entity has that energy on Nostr. And whereas X manipulates its algorithm to steer the dialog just like the Fed’s manipulation of rates of interest to steer the economic system, Nostr offers this energy again to the customers. Now that “President Musk” is de facto getting into the White Home, you could possibly even argue X is changing into a part of the federal government. X is fiat.
Maybe much more importantly — at the very least for me personally — my expertise on Nostr is by now superior to what I encounter on X… admittedly a low bar. Whereas I typically discover attention-grabbing insights on Nostr, most of what I see on the platform previously referred to as Twitter as of late are generic TikTok-style memes, rage-bait, and shit takes from Kekius Maximus himself.
I do nonetheless submit on X typically, however I’ve more and more disengaged from the dialog over there and can doubtless proceed to take action. In the meantime, I’ve discovered myself spending extra time on Nostr (particularly via Damus and Amesthyst), and I anticipate this to solely improve.
Certain, Nostr continues to be area of interest for now, and maybe it should stay area of interest in comparison with X. Judging by the hype round ETFs, MicroStrategy and Strategic Bitcoin Reserves, trusting central events is fairly hip amongst many bitcoiners these days, anyhow.
However I’ll gladly take Nostr’s area of interest sign over X’s noisy plenty.
This text is a Take. Opinions expressed are fully the writer’s and don’t essentially mirror these of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Journal.
