Having to mine BTC on specialized ASIC hardware as opposed to being able to do so on hardware that is widely affordable/accessible doesn’t feel like a particularly democratized system no matter the types of tricks used to link the devices together…
Was doing exchange arbitrage, though. So needed to have the coins on exchange for at least one leg of the transactions. The coins got stuck once they hit gox.
I love the idea of Nostr as a twitter alternative, but content discovery is so challenging… at least via Damus. Also, Twitter still has critical mass by a large margin of active experts in interesting subjects… e.g. AI, Medicine, Economics (non-crypto focused) ☹️