{"id":3424,"date":"2025-05-16T21:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/16\/nostr-in-2025-is-a-lot-like-bitcoin-in-2012\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:16:07","slug":"nostr-in-2025-is-a-lot-like-bitcoin-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/16\/nostr-in-2025-is-a-lot-like-bitcoin-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostr In 2025 Is A Lot Like Bitcoin In 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Nostr In 2025 Is A Lot Like Bitcoin In 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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I recently sat down with Vitor Pomplona, creator of Nostr client Amethyst<\/a>, to discuss how Nostr in 2025 is a lot like what Bitcoin was like in 2012 \u2014 a bit rough around the edges, but exciting to use.<\/p>\n

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Nostr<\/a>, a decentralized protocol for social media and other forms of communication, is only four years old, and developers are still figuring out how to create the best possible user experience within the clients they\u2019ve created. These clients include apps like Primal<\/a> (which is comparable to X) to Olas<\/a> (which is like Instagram) to Yakihonne<\/a> (which is similar to Substack).<\/p>\n

What\u2019s unique about Nostr clients, though, is that users can \u201czap\u201d (send small amounts of) bitcoin to one another to show appreciation for the content their fellow users have created.<\/p>\n

And Pomplona is optimistic that more and more Nostr clients are starting to gain traction, just as Bitcoin began to do so 13 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are starting to see communities being formed and more money being transferred,\u201d Pamplona told Bitcoin Magazine in the interview.<\/p>\n

A Bitcoin-Fueled Creator Economy<\/h2>\n

Pomplona acknowledged that part of the purpose of social media is to enable means for users to monetize what they create in ways that they can\u2019t do in their physical environment.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Some social media] users want to earn a living,\u201d said Pomplona. \u201cThey have hope that they can achieve more with social media than they can alone or in their cities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pamplona believes that Nostr clients can help transform that hope into a reality, and it\u2019s his mission to help users do this.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is our end goal: If we can get creators to the point where they can earn a living, we will win as a platform.\u201d<\/p>\n

This potential for users to earn a living with Nostr becomes greater everyday, especially as the Nostr user base expands and it continues to grow as the largest bitcoin circular economy in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Amethyst<\/h2>\n

In creating Amethyst, Pamplona had a vision for a Nostr client that served as an all-in-one app, which was inspired by a plan similar to the one that Elon Musk had for X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n

\u201cAmethyst came in at the same time that Elon was talking about buying Twitter,\u201d explained Pomplona. \u201cHe was like let\u2019s make a mega app out of Twitter, and I went for the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Pomplona understands that Amethyst didn\u2019t quite achieve this, he\u2019s excited that it\u2019s come to play a different role. It serves as a lab for people who are developing new Nostr clients.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmethyst is helping everybody kickstart their own applications,\u201d he said. \u201cOlas came from Amethyst.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nostr As A Bitcoin Onboarding Tool<\/h2>\n

Pomplona sees Nostr as a great way to onboard people to Bitcoin, though he doesn\u2019t think this should be the primary goal of Nostr clients.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main goal for [Nostr] apps is to get people to do their thing \u2014 to get people to be creative, or to talk to their friends or to have a chat with their family,\u201d explained Pomplona.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo app should ever talk about either Nostr or Bitcoin. They should just be what they are,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Pamplona believes that, after some time, the app\u2019s users will inevitably start to learn about Nostr\u2019s self-sovereignty Nostr provides when it comes to users being able to control their own data and about Bitcoin.<\/p>\n

\u201c[They\u2019ll realize that] it just so happens that the platform helps them to manage their own data, and use best payment protocol we have today.\u201d<\/p>\n

And he highlighted that most new users are coming to Nostr because of the freedom and censorship resistance<\/a> it offers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past two years, most of the new Nostr users came in because of freedom, because of some censorship in their country,\u201d said Pomplona. \u201cAnd they learned about Bitcoin after that.\u201d<\/p>\n

This post Nostr In 2025 Is A Lot Like Bitcoin In 2012<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Frank Corva<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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