What makes Nostr like Bitcoin?
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LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 days agoPlus, because it’s built on Nostr, a decentralized protocol favored by Dorsey, and is open source, developers can set up and create their own apps and run their own hosts, relays, and media servers.
Sounds great in paper, in reality it amounts to little more than Twitter with Lightning (Bitcoin) duct-taped to it
null@piefed.nullspace.lol 3 days ago
XLE@piefed.social 3 days ago
The protocol was built to exchange cryptocurrency over it. Today, basically nobody uses it except for cryptocurrency shills.
null@piefed.nullspace.lol 3 days ago
The protocol was built to exchange cryptocurrency over it.
No it wasn’t…
lime@feddit.nu 3 days ago
instead of asking obviously leading questions, why not tell people what you know?
XLE@piefed.social 2 days ago
Can you provide any counterevidence to the claims?
To quote them: “Nostr was kickstarted mostly by a community of Bitcoiners, so it has disproportionately attracted the attention of Bitcoiners.”
The “optional” Bitcoin payment system is baked into the biggest Nostr clients.
iloveDigit@piefed.social 2 days ago
Lightning isn’t Bitcoin
Taping Lightning to the side of nostr sucks, but doesn’t reduce it to “little more than Twitter”
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I don’t think that’s entirely fair; the Nostr protocol has a modular design philosophy, with most components being optional addons, including the Bitcoin payments stuff. It’s genuinely decentralized and explicitly made to be easy to not use any baggage you don’t like.
It’s unclear from the article if the use of the protocol will also mean overlap with the content and community of Nostr, which is understandable to criticize, but the protocol itself is just another take on decentralized social media that does things differently than activitypub.