This is true and we should be okay with it, if anything centralized services would bring more development/more relays and solutions to some of our problems. They would also bring a ton of stupid stuff but we can just choose to ignore them completely, which is the beauty of nostr.
HoloKat
It’s only a matter of time before nostr utility becomes a hybrid of centralized services paired with the benefits of nostr’s network effects.
I believe some of the first successful businesses will be built in this fashion. They may not even bother with zaps.
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I own a brick and mortar retail business. I'm looking into how I might utilize nostr to integrate lighting payments and square terminal payments linked to an inventory management system that lives on a series of private nostr relays.
The current problem I face in accepting lightning is automating and linking the sale to my inventory system. I think nostr fixes this with notes and zaps. I believe "loyalty card" profiles can also utilize nostr quite well too.
This would be a fully centralized and private implementation of course.
Nostr as a protocol has boundless application!
Loyalty card is brilliant! "Satokspheare just spent 1590 sats at Billards Hall"
I’ve done many segments of a retail store workflow. Now I owe my custom private nostr server, buys and sells are already on #nostr. I’m not very excited about zaps ⚡️ because it is a very gross implementation and much better ways will emerge soon. I’m working myself into moving the bitcoin blockchain entirely to nostr. Removing the bitcoin-core ugly implementation and creating a brand new network all done in js.
I was thinking zaps can be used as a simple way to provide loyalty card cashback. If you build a loyalty card app and integrate nostr, you simply automatically generate a keypair for each customer to set up their account.
Their purchase enters the system as a note with purchase details in a particular format. A bot can extract those details and adjust inventory on the back end. Then an autozapper can provide cashback/loyalty points directly on that purchase receipt. Customers then have a full purchase history and you have data for analytics.
Would be curious to hear what sorts of implementations you have done and how they have helped your workflow!
Zap works thru a hard integration using two servers (bitcoind + lightningd) but it’s hard to run (800Gb) and has to be online aways (lightning). Nostr has a this “new” kind of network (websocket) mesh which I’m using to leverage the existence of those two servers inside #nostr using transactions as notes 📝 we can exchange using this new network. After we start using those notes to broadcast #bitcoin I’ll be able to integrate everything inside nostr, making lightning useless. Nostr is way more advanced than C++ sockets. Bitcoin will change a lot because of nostr. I’m a happy watcher/coder.
