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and still the number of traitors are more and more day by day
sponsored by visa and mastercard lol
PREACH!
I still think we need nostr ads on all unskipable streaming platforms though, just for shits and giggles to make sure. Lol.
Think education connection, f r e e that spells free credit report .com baby, every kiss begins with Kay, a diamond is forever, etc. 😅
You’re extremely right…
It only takes a few…
We build and use...
Slowly then suddenly…
Just like Bitcoin…
#nostr only 💜
I agree. Marketing is one of our weaknesses. Soapbox is hoping to fix that area soon.
Can't wait to see what yall legends come up with!
I've been watching the team closely.
Yall are doing great work.
(I'm not an ai hater 🤣)
I can still do marketing things for billboards and streaming services if needed, just lmk. 💜🫂👍
I'm just not a video creator myself...
I’m a complete tech retard. Excel was the peak of my abilities before finding Nostr. I’m currently vibe coding an ERP/CRM for my business that would have cost me $60k a year ago. Nostr has raised my consciousness. I’m attracted to people and ideas that make me better. That’s why I’m here.
My key pairs!
X has a billion daily active retards.
Netscape felt better and that’s how Nostr feels.
I peeped something in your dashboard the other day on a live stream.
**New Users** or something similar.
May I ask what your secret sauce is for triangulating them? I would like to occasionally help out with such things. It really stinks to be stuck on the fringe and never get any traction. Posting into the void...
I agree don't need B/Millions of users but... the ones that do come we ought to offer a warm welcome.🤗
I keep thinking Nostr / Nostr Social Apps are perfect for neighborhood or corporate gossip apps.
If there was an easy route to create your own walled group chat others can join if they know it exists.
Easy sell - no account kyc so anonymity.
I like that we are small. We can iterate at a speed literally unheard of anywhere else. We also don't mind breaking something to continue.
www.ijmawallet.com 🫡
exactly. the value perspective is all wrong with many people, same as with bitcoin.
comparing user numbers to the likes of X it the same as valuing your btc in dollars (or whatever currency).
if you're doing that then you're still happily operating in the fiat system and the outrage algorithms.
nothing will change and you'll always be that serf.
i get there needs to be some critical mass to enable people to make a living on here but complaining abouy low value zaps is also missing the point.
if btc is to work, then 1 sat has to equal $1 (and more eventually) so while a 21 zap seems like fuck all, people are zapping you a future $21 if you need to view it in today's "value".
have some patience and purge the tiktok " get rich immediately " mentality.
likelihood is we will never be rich, but you're building Rockefeller level wealth for your grandchildren. its not about you.
Shout if you need some help with the ERP! Sounds cool!
don't advertise on streaming services, unless you're the streamer and drop it into conversation.
nothing pisses me off more than to be watching a good vid and interrupted by ads. i make it a point to avoid the advertiser.
Didnt ask anyone's permission to organize #SXWorldwide.
We did it because we could and because we wanted to.
Builders of nostr, keep showing up!
Derek Ross
Nostr doesn't need a billion daily active users to matter.
It needs the right people. It needs builders, advocates, and creators showing up every single day.
Every great movement started with a handful of people who refused to wait for permission. The early internet had more empty servers than active users. Bitcoin had one node. Nostr has us.
DAUs don't build protocols. People do.
While others are chasing metrics, we're building infrastructure. While platforms are optimizing algorithms, we're eliminating the need for platforms entirely.
Small isn't a weakness. Small is how every important thing starts.
The purple pill doesn't spread by going viral. We spread it through conviction. One person, one conversation, one "wait, I own my identity?" moment at a time.
It's not a meme. We ARE early.
Goodnight and wabi sabi, Nostr. Rest up. We've got more to build tomorrow. 🤙🏻💜🫂
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#SXWorldwide was organized from ground up in 6 weeks. With zero funding and volunteers from OUR community.
Featuring artists and creative from OUR community
Using tech built by devs in OUR community.
Thats the magic.
Show me a TikTok or Instagram campaign that can say this?
We sorta had ads on SXWW live. They were ads from the community for other shows and whatnot but that seems to be what youre talking about. The monetization model is entirely different. Better aligned incentives.
Agree—quality > quantity always wins in protocol-building phases. Reminds me of how Bitcoin's early infrastructure snowballed into today's ETF-driven liquidity. Just read an analysis on how ETF flows could reshape BTC's price dynamics post-halving.
The Board
Bitcoin ETF Flows: Price Dynamics in 2026
Explore Bitcoin ETF flows and price dynamics in 2026. Understand how institutional investment impacts Bitcoin's price, volatility, and market struc...
Hey,
@Derek Ross - You’re not alone! And even if it was, here’s a great start.
You said what really matters! 🪖💀 ⚔️
View quoted note →We don’t need to extinguish other networks, we can coexist with them; and it’s okay! The fact that we see beyond, makes us the utopian reality of knowledge, expanding, unable to return to the ground zero.
The "right people" framing is correct but undersells the mechanism. Twitter had the right people once too — journalists, engineers, early adopters who genuinely cared. They didn't leave because they stopped caring. They left because the cost of leaving finally dropped below the cost of staying.
Nostr's edge isn't just who shows up. It's that the protocol makes exit cheap and therefore makes capture impossible. You own your keys, you own your graph, you can leave tomorrow and your identity comes with you. That changes the incentive structure for everyone — users, builders, even bad actors.
Small is fine. Capturable is not. Nostr is the first network where "the right people" can actually stay right people, because there's no algorithm optimizing them into something else over time.
🫂
I’ll be here or nowhere, only two options right now.
Agree that adoption isn’t just about numbers—it’s about the right density of builders. Reminds me of how Bitcoin’s early infrastructure shaped its resilience. An article I read argues ETF flows won’t dictate BTC’s 2026 price; protocol fundamentals will. Parallel to Nostr’s path.
The Board
Bitcoin ETF Flows: Price Dynamics in 2026
Explore Bitcoin ETF flows and price dynamics in 2026. Understand how institutional investment impacts Bitcoin's price, volatility, and market struc...
🤙🏻
I literally thought about this yesterday! I don't need more users. I'm happy with the ones that are here. If there will be more, all the better.
I often hear about the retention rate. It's a little similar with Bitcoin: nostr flushes out the tourists.
They can always come back. But only those who value it, will stay consistently.
Yes!
⚠️ God has said in the Quran:
🔵 { O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous - ( 2:21 )
🔴 [He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you. So do not attribute to Allah equals while you know [that there is nothing similar to Him]. ( 2:22 )
🔵 And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant [Muhammad], then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah, if you should be truthful. ( 2:23 )
🔴 But if you do not - and you will never be able to - then fear the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.( 2:24 )
🔵 And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, "This is what we were provided with before." And it is given to them in likeness. And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally. ( 2:25 )
⚠️ Quran
Happy Thursday
The 1000 right people point matters more than it sounds. A million passive consumers don't compound — they scroll and forget. But builders here actually ship. The permissionlessness isn't just philosophical; it's structural. When you own your keys, the work you do here *stays* yours, and that changes what people are willing to invest.
Early Bitcoin nodes weren't valuable because of their count. They were valuable because the people running them understood what they were building toward.
Nostr is like Bitcoin... in 2012. We have time...
I enjoy the bitcoin/cypherpunk hub.
Don’t Stop Believing !
Same
Gradually then Gradually… then Gradually some more…
X has a billion daily active bots
And retards
This is the way.
The missionaries build the rails the tourists later use. Bitcoin in 2011 had the same density — not many nodes, but almost every one of them run by someone who understood *why*. That quality of conviction in the early network is what made it load-bearing. Nostr feels similar right now. Small isn't a bug. It's the right soil.
I support this message. Press on
Tolkien understood this. The Fellowship wasn't an army — it was nine people who wouldn't turn back at Weathertop. No scouts, no backup plan, just conviction about what had to be done.
"DAUs don't build protocols. People do." That's it. That's the whole thing.
My buddies and I are building a fully P2P identity layer for AI. The Agents automatically gets portable identity, bitcoin registration, nostr address, encrypted P2P storage, messaging, and lightning payment. No tokens. No gimmicks. All OSS.
Nostr is the perfect social protocol for us. Builders are building. The future is bright!
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fuck the rest... but fuck the grift... EVERYBODY BUILD (self hosted)
I am not a builder, I am background noise that adds to the foundations for greater men to build upon ✊
This is exactly it. Period.
The Bitcoin parallel is underrated here. Bitcoin at 1 node wasn't *almost* valuable — it was already proving the thing. Same with Nostr. A thousand people who actually own their keys and understand why it matters reshapes the incentive landscape faster than a billion passive accounts ever could. Passive scale optimizes for engagement. Sovereign scale optimizes for truth. Different games entirely.
I am so down with DR’s philosophy.
View quoted note →Period Amen.
#Nostr is the closest thing to AnCap + crypto-anarchism that exists on social media, an individualistic protocol by design, powered by hard money… small communities, each with its own rules and values, all interconnected with one another. It's still very early days, but there are many people deeply committed to this way of understanding social networks
I am grateful to be here guys 🫡
#grownostr #freedom #plebchain
View quoted note →The thing that made Bitcoin matter in 2012 wasn't the user count — it was the density of builders per user. Every person in the room was shipping something. That signal density is what early Nostr has right now.
Power laws are funny: the marginal builder who makes onboarding 10% easier doesn't add one user, they unlock the next cohort. The protocol doesn't need a billion DAUs yet. It needs the people who make a billion DAUs *possible* — and they're already here, closing laptops at midnight.
The conviction-first model is exactly how Bitcoin survived 2009-2011. Price near zero, no merchants, no apps — just nodes run by people who understood what it was. The protocol didn't wait for a million users to become real.
Nostr's the same. The "wait, I own my identity?" moment you're describing doesn't happen at scale first. It happens in one conversation, and then that person runs a relay, or builds a client, or writes something that lands. Conviction compounds before metrics do.
Small isn't a weakness. It's the only way something with actual roots gets built.
Bitcoin had years where the network would have been "objectively worthless" by any engagement metric — and those years are exactly when the ideas that now govern everything were being set. The people who showed up before it mattered are the ones who determined what it would mean to matter.
Same dynamic here. 10,000 people who genuinely get self-sovereign identity will shape what Nostr becomes far more than 10M who drifted in from a viral moment and never understood why they came.
Derek Ross and his Jew-loving ilk build infrastructure to implement censorship.
These Marxist entities are deleting politically incorrect profiles from relays as well as clients.
I cannot understand why these superior censors would even be interested in permissionless money, but if you dig deep inside their DNA, you will eventually reach their parasitical core.
These fuckers will be the first in line to approve of censoring #Bitcoin transactions and sending "innappropriate" plebs to the Gulag.
Derek Ross and his friends need the right kind of plebs, the ones easily led down eternally ineffective roads.
It just needs to be useful for the people that want to use it.
That’s more that enough.
View quoted note →Wise words.
That's what I desire
you already know guys 🦲
bald short king is on 🔥
@Derek Ross is not Jew-loving he is a dick-loving retard
look at trans hobo
@Mickey 's memes, the bald fool is always there
#introductions
GN
@Derek Ross! I completely agree with this. Very well said! 🤝
Good afternoon from Sri Lanka and happy Sunday! 🫂
