Gm Nostr ! Excited to go home and scroll Primal!

Nostr is at a real risk of dying a slow, quiet death. Right now it’s still overwhelmingly a Bitcoin room with better plumbing. Most of the energy, most of the big accounts, most of the long-form notes, most of the zaps — all orbit around BTC. That’s understandable. Bitcoiners built the early culture and they still care the most. But if that never changes, Nostr becomes just another specialized chat protocol that slowly loses relevance the moment the next shiny thing appears. Protocols don’t survive on tech superiority alone. They survive when different tribes start living there. Artists who got shadowbanned everywhere else. Journalists who refuse to play by corporate rules. Open-source builders who actually want to own their identity. Privacy people who aren’t already deep into crypto. Even the people who just want to talk about training, books, local politics, or weird niche hobbies without an algorithm deciding whether they’re allowed to be seen. If those groups never show up in meaningful numbers, Nostr stays a high-signal Bitcoin circlejerk with fancy cryptography. And circlejerks eventually get boring, even for the people inside them. The conversation stagnates. The same takes get recycled. New people look in, see only orange-pilled discourse, and leave. The protocol is already good enough. The real bottleneck is cultural. Are the current users willing to make space for topics that have nothing to do with Bitcoin, or will they keep treating every non-BTC note as noise? Because if the latter happens, Nostr doesn’t get killed by regulators or competitors. It just slowly becomes irrelevant. Curious what people actually think. Is this already happening, or am I being too pessimistic?

I was one of the first to get @npub1tkey...wral back when it didn’t even have a screen. Everyone kept telling me the multisig wasn’t something you could really trust because one key sits with the company. Now after the Coldcard mess I see Bitkey everywhere. Happy people finally started recognizing the actual security they’re buying with this thing. • real 2-of-3 that works without seed phrases and has proper recovery paths for normal life • company key only activates with time delays + notifications so you can still stop it • every unit is physically unique with the embedded chips, makes replacement attacks much harder The most secure way to Bitcoin

gm nostr from Halkidiki! Nowhere important to be today, except right here. ☀️🚤🌊

At first you play with crypto, staking, swapping, trading, all the shiny stuff. Then one day you realize all you really needed was Bitcoin. Just arrived at BTC Prague!

GM fam, Proof of sun. Proof of rest. ☀️ No charts today. Just taking profits in sunlight.

I’ve been mostly doing lump sum buys, but I’m switching to hourly Bitcoin DCA now. Not sure if it’s the right move, but I’m giving the steady approach a try. Tiny buys, steady hands. ⚡ Strike, for sure. @npub1ex7m...vyt9 @jack mallers

Still processing last night. Metallica live hits different. What a night. 🤘🔥 #metallica

I’m seriously thinking about setting up my own Bitcoin node. Not because I “need” to, but because it feels like the next natural step if you really care about Bitcoin. At some point, holding Bitcoin is one thing. Verifying it yourself is another. Now I’m trying to decide what to run: Bitcoin Core or Bitcoin Knots? Core feels like the default, battle-tested path. Knots seems more opinionated, with extra policy options and a different philosophy around spam, inscriptions, and what should be relayed by the network. Curious what people here think. If you were setting up a node today, would you go with Bitcoin Core or Bitcoin Knots, and why?

I really like the Don’t Die app. It’s centralized, yes, but the idea is strong: health, habits, community, and accountability in one place. Honestly, it would be even better as a Nostr app. Open identity, portable data, social health without the platform lock-in. It’s getting pretty annoying having separate accounts and logins for everything. Nostr fixes that beautifully. For me, it’s probably the best “second-best thing” after Nostr.

GM fam ☀️ strong energy, beautiful timeline today… and I just bought my Bitcoin Prague conference tickets. 🇨🇿₿ Now the countdown begins. See you where signal is louder than noise. ⚡️