mplorentz on Nostr: First day back to work after Nostriga. Here are a few of the takeaways I shared with ...
First day back to work after Nostriga. Here are a few of the takeaways I shared with our team:
• Everybody is thinking about relays-as-communities and how we can make that work.
• The community is down on Bitcoin and zaps. The data is clear that zaps aren't keeping new users around. Some energy around Cashu zaps.
◦ Cashu is basically servers issuing issuing money as IOUs. The servers federate with one another Lighting transactions so you can send money to someone on another server. It's fully custodial but is much more private than Bitcoin and kind of works offline.
• MLS encryption for large encrypted groups is super hard. I don’t see a world where every Nostr app supports large encrypted groups. Maybe a few specialized apps will. I think this is fine because big groups don't really need encryption, but it has implications for other privacy features like private profiles.
• The outbox/gossip model is really hard (but still worth doing).
• Everybody is thinking about relays-as-communities and how we can make that work.
• The community is down on Bitcoin and zaps. The data is clear that zaps aren't keeping new users around. Some energy around Cashu zaps.
◦ Cashu is basically servers issuing issuing money as IOUs. The servers federate with one another Lighting transactions so you can send money to someone on another server. It's fully custodial but is much more private than Bitcoin and kind of works offline.
• MLS encryption for large encrypted groups is super hard. I don’t see a world where every Nostr app supports large encrypted groups. Maybe a few specialized apps will. I think this is fine because big groups don't really need encryption, but it has implications for other privacy features like private profiles.
• The outbox/gossip model is really hard (but still worth doing).