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0 sats \ 22 replies \ @ek OP 14 Dec \ parent \ on: Which hard problem did nostr solve? nostr
If the social media aspect was just a test, did or will it pass its own test?
It works for social media, it's just not very good. It also works for secure messaging, but it's not very good at that either: all the json-inside-json means that if you really want this as a base protocol, you'll have to redesign.
It works for interoperability because there are SDKs. More than for, say,
ssb, which has always been a shitshow. I think that ultimately, for each product that you can imagine that nostr would be great for, there will be a competing protocol that is greater.The only moat is imho the existing developer base within the Bitcoin community. So if you need a comms protocol within the Bitcoin space, nostr is it.
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So if you need a comms protocol within the Bitcoin space, nostr is it.
You nail it perfectly !
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Ah yes, but I wondered which parts of it you consider poorly designed, since I don't know if we agree on the details.
For me, it's key management, no mechanism to avoid centralization around a particular use-case, and maybe also no optimization for any specific use-case.
if you need a comms protocol within the Bitcoin space, nostr is it.
Does most of the important discussion around bitcoin happen on nostr, and not on GitHub or Delving Bitcoin or on the mailing list?
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I think he didn't referred to general discussions about Bitcoin, but how to use bitcoin communicating through nostr as protocol.
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I was really interested in using nostr relays for WebRTC signaling; maybe I'll look into that again now that I have time.
But I guess that would require specific support by the relay, so it would only work with nostr relays that support it, so not sure if it makes sense to build something like WebRTC on top of nostr instead of just using WebRTC ...
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check the code for hivetalk
https://github.com/HiveTalk
I think right now is an amalgam of ideas, many apps built on top of a core based on cryoptography and and easy way to communicate.
Is not anymore the original idea.
As Bitcoin motto was "fuck banks", we do not have such thing for nostr. With nostr you don't fuck anything. Maybe you fuck http comms b y using wss instead :)
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Is communicating in Nostr better than on SN?
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Are two different things.
This question is like asking: how do you communicate better, through a billboard or an email / SMS ?
If you put together SN and nostr you understand nothing of both.
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