While many of you will have heard of bitcoin circular economies like that of El Salvador bitcoin Beach or from South Africa bitcoin first but you haven't been able to go spend your sats in a place like this, you should know that with just a few clicks you can join the largest bitcoin circular economy in the world: Nostr.
Yes, I know that a virtual bitcoin circular economy is different from a physical one, and I take my hat off to all those who are working to establish such economies in the real world, but Nostr is a place where bitcoin is exchanged for value provided by all modes. .
For newbies Nostr, it is an open source protocol on which different types of applications (which are technically called “clients”) can be implemented and used. When you join Nostr, which you can do through any Nostr app, you're issued a public/private key pair (like a bitcoin wallet), the first of which helps people find you on Nostr apps. Nostr and the second allows you to log in. in applications.
Nostr currently has around 42,000 weekly active users who use applications ranging from we give (comparable to x) a Yaki Honne (comparable to Substack or Medium) a wavlake (comparable to Spotify or Apple Music), whose mobile application is a Nostr client. What's particularly cool about Nostr is that your followers on one Nostr app follow you across all of their apps. To better imagine this, imagine having the same followers on instagram as you do on x.
Over the course of 2024, I earned over 350,000 sats, now valued at approximately $350 USD, for posting my thoughts and sharing links to the articles I write and the music I create (Nostr is a particularly interesting place to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankcorva/2024/10/01/musicians-can-now-earn-bitcoin-for-streaming-their-songs/”>musicians to share their work) – and I had less than 1000 followers for most of the year.
Last night I simply shared my thoughts on how great Nostr is. Primitiveone of my favorite Nostr apps and the one I recommend you use to get started with Nostr, and I got 2165 sats for it.
me too zapped (nostr slang for “send sats to”) my fair share of creators since joining Nostr, and I plan to continue showing love in the form of satoshis in 2025.
So if you're a supporter of using bitcoin as a currency and want to start participating in the world's largest bitcoin circular economy, download a Nostr app today, connect it to a Lightning wallet (mobile apps like Primal have a built-in Lightning Wallet) and join us in accepting and sending bitcoins in exchange for valuable content today.
This article is a Carry. The opinions expressed are entirely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of btc Inc or bitcoin Magazine.
