Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

Colby Serpa colby@hornetstorage.net 2 years ago

It works for #bitcoin, and it will work here if the new standard is excellent. Wait and see… Universal consensus is a deep beauty of decentralized protocols, because social consensus doesn’t scale — as you can probably tell by the bickering between different client-devs.

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Colby Serpa colby@hornetstorage.net 2 years ago

Switching clients is simply proof that it isn’t centralized — like running knots instead of #bitcoin core. Although, 95%+ run bitcoin core and that is for the best. I think the same exact rules apply here.

<old>cypherhoodlum 2 years ago

Bitcoin and Nostr are different though, because Nostr doesn't have any consensus algorithm. If you stubbornly choose the wrong chain, you lose money or degrade your security. If you choose "the wrong nostr client" (which doesn't exist) your client is not interoperable with other clients. Factions emerge and social networks split, but there is no economical incentive to switch clients whatsoever.

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