PABLOF7z on Nostr: Some people are still confused why nostr DEPENDS on bitcoin to be decentralized. It's ...
Some people are still confused why nostr DEPENDS on bitcoin to be decentralized.
It's not the zaps, it's not spam prevention
Building and running nostr infrastructure has a cost,
Like anything that incurs a cost, the underlying layers of how that cost is settled determine its attributes.
Layer 1: Money
Layer 2: Payment rails
Anything built on top of these layers can be as censorship-resistant as the layers themselves, but not more.
If these layers are not censorship-resistant, anything built on top of them will by necessity also not be.
It's not the zaps, it's not spam prevention
Building and running nostr infrastructure has a cost,
Like anything that incurs a cost, the underlying layers of how that cost is settled determine its attributes.
Layer 1: Money
Layer 2: Payment rails
Anything built on top of these layers can be as censorship-resistant as the layers themselves, but not more.
If these layers are not censorship-resistant, anything built on top of them will by necessity also not be.