Tether is an under appreciated business. $150B of risk-free float backed by a network-effect business. A 21st century Warren Buffett would kill to own something like this.

In 2024 Visa settled at 15.7 trillion USD and Bitcoin settled 19.2 trillion USD. But the more appropriate comparison to Bitcoin is Fedwire. Fedwire settled 1,133 trillion USD. Bitcoin is only 1.7% of Fedwire size. Still very early.

I think another aspect is probably privacy. You can’t really delete things you write on NOSTR, and everything is 100% public. High value for certain use cases, but really intense long term for many. View quoted note →

NOSTR is not growing very quickly. what do you think it’d take to make it grow faster? for me: - easier ways to find quality posts - easier ways to onboard publishers from https://stats.nostr.band/

What about distinction verified accounts engaging (zaps, comments, likes etc)? Seems like more signal View quoted note →

Interesting you can zap yourself. So trending is hackable?

Insane there are half a million accounts here already. Anyone know how many are NIP-05 verified?