Get Alex some users, that's your job. At least 500. By Monday.

just depends when. if you'd exchanged all your sats 10 years ago for ETH, as of today you'd have 15x more money than if you didn't do that. so you'd have won.

translation: no shame in taking their joke money seriously.

The Japanese-speaking community on nostr is the best community here, they don't talk about the same boring stuff as the english-speaking community.

But I was responding to the note in English about the petition. They are not going to be reading that note (well I'm guessing most aren't). I think they stick to themselves pretty much. Power to them.

Not saying dismiss their ideas. Just find other, better people who have articulated the same ideas and go with their articulation instead.

Yeah everyone's got skeletons, but you can kinda intuit who is really terrible behind closed doors and who is just minimally terrible.

It's not. There are only so many human minds with the means to affect the price. And in the last few years the deeper concept of bitcoin has reached pretty much all of them. Before moving the bitcoin price was mostly about introducing bitcoin to new minds with the means to affect the price. Now you don't have many of those new minds left. Now, moving the price is about un-hardening already hardened opinions, old minds, a much harder task.

People forget that the price of bitcoin comes down to the personal opinions of a fixed number of people. The price of any money does.

Sometime in the next10 years (or whenever) bitcoin is going to be forked where the fork becomes the new bitcoin, that's for quantum. That’ll once again demonstrate that nothing about bitcoin is “locked in”. It's software that gets updates, that's what it is.

It's not whether you or I would get behind a fork with a different number coins, it's whether such a fork could happen before all the coins are mined. If it could happen, even in circumstances we'd find hard to imagine in 2025, even 50 years from now, then it's just not a hard limit.

The point dude was making about bitcoin is correct. It is inflation, and "we're kind of planning to stop at 21 million" doesn't magically change "creating" into "revealing".

You could say that about anything. Everything has a total number that will ever exist, even raindrops, it's just a question of whether we know what the total is or not.

In fact I'm looking at a number of raindrops that just got "released from the total supply" outside my window right now.

And as you point out a hard fork could change Bitcoin so we don't even REALLY know the total number there either. Nobody has a time machine.

What like you don't have a personal or a corporate bank account? You have a company it seems. If you say you don't I'll believe you, but I'd wonder how you do your corporate accounting.

Those who really care about normies and growing nostr then are going to be for USDT zaps.

It's insanely hard for the average person to acquire "a little Bitcoin" in any form, be it lightning form or Cashu form (if you call Cashu a form). Strike doesn't even have debit card support anymore for goodness sakes. People just can't get the stuff, and no, begging nostr old-timers for a few handout sats is not a solution.

The best path for growing nostr is USDT, because normies can actually GET A HOLD OF IT. Nostr doesn't run on Bitcoin like Farcaster runs on ETH , at best Bitcoin is just a plug-in, and USDT is a more useful one.

How? It's not like Farcaster where you can have your trusted people sign off on a new main key. For nostr there can only ever be one main key per human. Best you can do is keep it very secure (not easy) and rely on bunkers, signers, etc. we all know the drill .