Why can’t Nostr relays charge $1 per month? If WhatsApp could do it, why can’t Nostr?

The unique Bit Chat use cases 👇 View quoted note →

Bit Chat is so funny when Meshtastic and Reticulum have existed for many years now. “What if we made a decentralized messenger but it was useless and made people think they’re all worthless trash” Jack is a master of: - stealing thunder - poisoning the well What else

*open Damus* *see “str” everywhere* *close Damus*

Taxing remittances at 100% would be genuinely interesting. Mainstream bitcoin use case.

Ngl, I would not trust a “vibe coded” app with a private key lol

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Every single app built on Nostr has rotten UX. It’s laughably byzantine. Just awful experience to try to figure it all out.

Delta Chat wants to move away from email as a source of identity and allow users to use multiple chatmail relays interchangeably.

Delta Chat: A big user surge and funding for decentralized scale

Beginning June we witnessed a sudden surge of Delta Chat usage especially in the US and Cuba. We don’t know the social dynamics behind it but it ...

SimpleX is easily the most complex and byzantine application and protocol I’ve ever seen. The name gives away that they know the value and importance of simplicity, however. View quoted note →

Venmo / Cash App UX for Lightning: “pay $1 to connect to this person”? 99% of people would understand that and do it. Just explain opening channels in a more straightforward way

Radio stations don’t know how many people are listening to them. They’re focused on broadcast and that’s it. So they had to develop Nielsen Ratings to know what their reach is. I see Nostr as very similar. We shouldn’t rely on aggregating follows. Our “Nielsen Ratings” should be data that we gather from relays on actual number of lookups they perform for specific accounts. Maybe you even pay to see what your real reach is. You can use that data to get sponsorships. So it should be an industry standard that is defensible metric.