Ok, but if someone wanted to use fiat or some other currency, this NIP could have been abstracted to a request, payment, and confirmation cycle that was still agnostic to bitcoin, no?

I just think being agnostic to money was a big benefit of Nostr. Now you’ll need an NIP for every different currency that someone wants to use. 

But realistically it will be blocked by bitcoiners that have taken over the process. 

So again, this is just a crappier version of Farcaster but with Bitcoin. 

thrown

bitcoin

NIP-57 was merged

Rsync25

bitcoin is the currency of the internet, so IMO it's a good thing and will enable use cases we never could think of before

it is optional, users that don't want this "bitcoin thing" are free to use other clients.

also paid relays are inevitable, so eventually it doesn't make sense to strip out bitcoin from nostr.