the "appreciation" was for your recognition that I put genuine effort into my project. you didn't NOT change anything for me... you've promoted me to question how I might simplify the protocol such that other payment methods would be more readily supported. the question of whether or not this is even needed - and if nostr needs to provide this - is probably something I won't budge on if I am to keep working on it. if I were to become convinced of that I'll just drop it and not waste the effort. It's an option but I don't see it happening. less fun. the premises I likely disagree with is the idea that all nostr is a solution looking for a problem and/or that it just exists to advertise Bitcoin.

I think you should consider doing the project even if nobody needs it. Learning how to do new things is valuable all by itself. Isn't it? Who here has been tangibly harmed by centralization? I know that I have been hurt by centralization and that's why I'm here. But most people I see here on Nostr don't give a shit that it's decentralized. Most people I talk with say that Nostr's killer feature is that here it's slightly more convenient to give eachother Bitcoin. Sure, if developers put in the effort then I'm sure this fragile clearnet platform can be made to better facilitate selling drugs and posting child porn. But I can already do all that shit on the darknet easy-peasy! I don't want federal agencies focusing their attention on the one clearnet platform that where user accounts aren't controlled by centralized moderators! Who does that help? What is Nostr about if it isn't about Bitcoin? Is it truly about making an alternative platform that empowers people to talk with scoundrels like me?