Decentralise on Nostr: ATTENTION NOSTR NEWBIES: NUMPTY Bitcoin bros are wrecking almost every Nostr client ...
ATTENTION NOSTR NEWBIES:
NUMPTY Bitcoin bros are wrecking almost every Nostr client with their obsession with zaps. Zaps are a bitcoin payment system found in most clients Nostr. Unfortunately 'zapping' encourages new users to give their email address to a single centralised company called Alby. Alby dominates nostr as there are no viable alternatives for 'zapping'. Bitcoin bros rightly encourage users to leave twitter because Musk wants payment to tack identity. But here on Nostr they push zaps == Alby (c) (ok you could run a payment server /node yourself if you know how to code, understand the fine details of bitcoin/lightning networking - but even then YOU WONT! - its complex, costly and stupid) . The problem is that Alby is not substantially different to Paypal: Both are able tie payments to identities. Alby is tied to Zaps. Alby is tied to your Nostr ID. Alby is tied to your email. Alby is tied to KYC (a legal reqiurement for using Bitcoin). Bitcoin is not a secure alternative to fiat, onboarding is tied to identity, it is not annonymous unless you mine it from scratch, and to make matters worse 'zap' (lightning network) payments are even less secure and less decentralised. Bitcoin anonymity is a myth . I still believe Nostr is the future for decentralised censorship resistant communication, but users must eschew bitcoin and zaps integration. The crypto capitalists are using Nostr to shill dodgy bitcoin startups and monetise every human interaction (the latter is the bigger issue here, if we don't push back on the zap cult, nostr will be flooded with false opinions tied only to the profit motives of receiving zaps) Capitalists will game the system. Nostr will become the OnlyFans of fake wacky opinions. Unfortunately most nostr clients now have zaps built in, it doesn't have to be this way though. Stop the zapping. and let Nostr flourish.
NUMPTY Bitcoin bros are wrecking almost every Nostr client with their obsession with zaps. Zaps are a bitcoin payment system found in most clients Nostr. Unfortunately 'zapping' encourages new users to give their email address to a single centralised company called Alby. Alby dominates nostr as there are no viable alternatives for 'zapping'. Bitcoin bros rightly encourage users to leave twitter because Musk wants payment to tack identity. But here on Nostr they push zaps == Alby (c) (ok you could run a payment server /node yourself if you know how to code, understand the fine details of bitcoin/lightning networking - but even then YOU WONT! - its complex, costly and stupid) . The problem is that Alby is not substantially different to Paypal: Both are able tie payments to identities. Alby is tied to Zaps. Alby is tied to your Nostr ID. Alby is tied to your email. Alby is tied to KYC (a legal reqiurement for using Bitcoin). Bitcoin is not a secure alternative to fiat, onboarding is tied to identity, it is not annonymous unless you mine it from scratch, and to make matters worse 'zap' (lightning network) payments are even less secure and less decentralised. Bitcoin anonymity is a myth . I still believe Nostr is the future for decentralised censorship resistant communication, but users must eschew bitcoin and zaps integration. The crypto capitalists are using Nostr to shill dodgy bitcoin startups and monetise every human interaction (the latter is the bigger issue here, if we don't push back on the zap cult, nostr will be flooded with false opinions tied only to the profit motives of receiving zaps) Capitalists will game the system. Nostr will become the OnlyFans of fake wacky opinions. Unfortunately most nostr clients now have zaps built in, it doesn't have to be this way though. Stop the zapping. and let Nostr flourish.