0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Busybe3z 25 Feb 2023 \ on: Boosts/Zaps/Tips as a vehicle for mass adoption bitcoin
People want free passive income, people don’t trust cryptocurrencies because they don’t understand them.
Once there are many different ways to earn and send sats and people are desperate enough (that’s right, I believe most people will turn to crypto of inflation gets bad enough, they won’t understand or trust it, they will be desperate) mass adoption will happen reluctantly… unless some Steve jobs like figure comes forth to show the sheep the way. People don’t know what they want until you show it to them… I’m just hoping people don’t flock to whatever centrally controlled crypto governments inevitably roll out :/
I wouldn't worry too much. "free" social media is the cornerstone of surveillance capitalism. They will try to ignore it, even suppress discussion of it (like Twitter did), and then before you know it, DAU growth of Nostr will outpace all other social networks and the network effect will do the rest. Most of the incumbents are tapped out for new userbase. They simply don't have any further growth potential.
And they already have all the rails and pathways for their favourites to get closer to the fiat spigot. It just isn't a profit opportunity for them, and even if they try it's gonna be johnny come lately.
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