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Nostr is waiting in the wings. It will be a real threat to Twitter, FB and all of the SV social apps in a year or two, imo. Development is increasing by the wee

Nostr is waiting in the wings. It will be a real threat to Twitter, FB and all of the SV social apps in a year or two, imo. Development is increasing by the week. Nostr clients also have something that Twitter, FB and other SV platforms lack: a built in payment system. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

angoragoats 4y ago
The nostr protocol is very interesting but every time I try to start using it, I'm turned off by the payment system stuff, or at least by a lot of the publicly advertised relays being associated with cryptocurrency. Though I'm not sure if that's what you're referring to wrt "a built in payment system." For example, if you go to coracle.social right now and go to the page to add relays, I see names like "wss://btc.klendazu.com" or "wss://nostr.ethtozero.fr". It seems (perhaps through no fault of the protocol developers) that it's becoming associated with cryptocurrency and it makes me not want to use it. edit: I added a few relays that didn't seem to have cryptocurrency-associated names, and the messages I've gotten so far all look like bots reporting status about cryptocurrency mining, or transfer of tokens, or some other nonsense.
- celtoid 4y ago
  Nostr is being built by young Bitcoin developers. Of course cryptocurrency is going to be in the mix. A lot of Nostr clients have Lightning Network built into them. That's what I meant by built in payment systems. That alone will ensure its possible success in Africa, Asia and other parts of the world besides the US.
  - angoragoats 4y ago
    Ah, thanks for the clarification; I didn’t realize the protocol is being built by Bitcoin people as the main repo doesn’t give much indication of that. I hope it can grow independent of the cryptocurrency use cases, as they’re a farce and doomed to failure eventually.

angoragoats 4y ago

The nostr protocol is very interesting but every time I try to start using it, I'm turned off by the payment system stuff, or at least by a lot of the publicly advertised relays being associated with cryptocurrency. Though I'm not sure if that's what you're referring to wrt "a built in payment system." For example, if you go to coracle.social right now and go to the page to add relays, I see names like "wss://btc.klendazu.com" or "wss://nostr.ethtozero.fr". It seems (perhaps through no fault of the protocol developers) that it's becoming associated with cryptocurrency and it makes me not want to use it. edit: I added a few relays that didn't seem to have cryptocurrency-associated names, and the messages I've gotten so far all look like bots reporting status about cryptocurrency mining, or transfer of tokens, or some other nonsense.

celtoid 4y ago
Nostr is being built by young Bitcoin developers. Of course cryptocurrency is going to be in the mix. A lot of Nostr clients have Lightning Network built into them. That's what I meant by built in payment systems. That alone will ensure its possible success in Africa, Asia and other parts of the world besides the US.
- angoragoats 4y ago
  Ah, thanks for the clarification; I didn’t realize the protocol is being built by Bitcoin people as the main repo doesn’t give much indication of that. I hope it can grow independent of the cryptocurrency use cases, as they’re a farce and doomed to failure eventually.