174 sats \ 4 replies \ @9ener1c 30 Mar 2023 \ on: Embracing Nostr: My Journey from Skeptic to Advocate nostr
Excellent post.
It seems to me that you can try a top down approach with specs, but it only succeeds if the spec is relatively straightforward and digestible. Most NIPs for Nostr are like this, and thus see broad adoption in clients.
If a spec is unavoidably complex, it's imperative to create high quality, easy to use implementations that sidestep the inevitable lack of adoption that would otherwise occur.
There is of course also monetary incentives as a third option, but that mostly belongs in shitcoin land, not here :)
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Idk, getting sats for posting stuff on the internet is pretty fucking cool even if it's not big money.
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Hehe, can't argue with that :)
I'm really referring to the shitcoin tokens with huge pre-mines, which include tens of millions of dollars in funding for marketing, which is used partially to pay-third party developers to adopt and promote their scam.
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Yeah I know what you're referring to, and agree, all these DAOs are shady af. It's ICOs 2.0.
I'm just pointing out us bitcoiners have our own (much less shady and corrupt) version of a monetary incentive to use a platform :)
But those shitcoin airdrops can have their uses. I recently got the ARB airdrop, immediately dumped it for $2.6k, converted it to stables, and used it to DCA more BTC.
Perfect timing too given the dip earlier this week!
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