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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @timechain 1 May 2023
Yeah, I think so. I'm a believer in the open protocols over walled gardens. First of all, right off the bat, we started with an interested bunch of devs from the Bitcoin/Lightning community, also, everyone's efforts benefit eachother, similar to Bitcoin, and maybe Linux.
(Linux is ran on basically every server that runs the internet, as well as what's behind Android phones, Kindles, iPods, PlayStations, Xbox and TiVo. I really believe in open standards. Linus came out in 1991, 32 years ago, and every year there is only more devices running it)
This is the kind of vision I have for nostr decades in the future. Unexpected usecases (beyond Twitter clones) far into the future. Right now, someone is working on a Nostr-based order book for Submarine swapping onchain to Lightning. (or vice versa) #171030
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 1 May 2023
Agreed. The speaker at my city's last BitDevs spoke about nostr and regarded it as simply a Twitter clone / open protocol social media. I didn't want to be rude and didn't push back right away, and she quickly moved onto the next topic. But I should have told her that nostr stands for "notes and other stuff transmitted by relays". Right now, it might mostly be notes that are being transmitted, but I believe it's the "other stuff" that will make this open protocol interesting, beautiful, influential, and powerful. So many things are being built on nostr, it's pretty amazing to see. The "other stuff" being built includes, but are not limited to, marketplaces, decentralized exchanges, go fund me replacement, signed bitcoin transaction broadcaster and much more. Oh, did I mention the GitHub replacement with a 10btc bounty from Dorsey?
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