Everyone is talking about the UK’s under-16 social media ban, but few are discussing the second-order effects.
If even a small percentage of young people migrate to Nostr, many will be exposed to Bitcoin wallets, Lightning payments, and zaps from an early age.
That matters.
The generation growing up today could become the first to see sending Bitcoin as normal rather than unusual.
If millions of young people become comfortable earning, saving, and spending sats online, businesses will eventually have to respond.
Markets follow customers.
Shops don’t accept new payment methods because governments tell them to.
They accept them because enough people want to pay that way.
The same thing happened with contactless payments, mobile banking, and digital wallets.
If a generation grows up on Nostr with a Bitcoin wallet in their pocket, the question won’t be “Why would a business accept Bitcoin?”
It will be “Why wouldn’t they?”
The biggest driver of Bitcoin adoption may not be investment.
It may be social networking.
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2026-06-16 04:29:18 UTC
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