dpc on Nostr: OB was waaay too early. Barely anyone was using Bitcoin then, and other than ...
OB was waaay too early. Barely anyone was using Bitcoin then, and other than censorship resistance and novelty everything about using it for commerce was meh. DHTs have crappy UX (slow) and running your own things is a drag. On top of it there's just a standard bootstrapping problem: you need sellers to make buyers bother, but you need buyers to make sellers bother.
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