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12 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 14 Dec \ on: Which hard problem did nostr solve? nostr
I remember when fiatjaf asked me in 2020 about his idea of nostr. He just wanted to get rid of twatter in a decentralized manner. But in the end he discovered something else, maybe bigger.
But I know that the original idea come not just from fiatjaf, but was way before 2020 from Ben Arc, with Diagon Alley market. They put together the ideas and that's how nostr come up.
Is not sure yet what is "fixing".
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 14 Dec
Nostr is gun without the graph DB, prototyped in the original ShockWallet
I just needed a way to communicate with keys over a simple socket server, gun overcomplicated it still since graphs are slow... Fiatjaf eliminated the lexical queries for simple tags
Everything I looked at was p2p nonsense, I wanted sockets so it worked reliably in browsers.
It's a standard not so much a solution, it's just json and websockets.
Ultimately it's just a document.
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