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Is this a fair comparison? What causes the next vertical phase? BTC bull market? Current apps get better? New apps/use cases emerge?

Is it really fair to compare?
One is bitcoin, the other is a social media platform.

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nostr is a protocol, social media platforms have been one of the first use cases. You under evaluate its potential to be much more than that… we don’t even know yet

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Fair - although I see Nostr as far more than a social media protocol. I see it as a new identity/meta-data layer on which to build all Internet applications. And I still think the comparison to BTC is interesting in terms of an open source project gaining developer interest.

But perhaps the new chart above is more instructive.

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Based on feedback from @melvincarvalho, here's perhaps a better comparison:

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I ran out of free lines, so it's missing ActivityPub/Mastodon (although it surprisingly only had 1.2k stars)

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looks like mastodon/mastodon actually has 47k stars - so will need to add

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