Ben Eng on Nostr: Nostr becomes the base layer for decentralized market for digital services. Clients ...
Nostr becomes the base layer for decentralized market for digital services. Clients make requests across their social network, and providers negotiate to fulfill like an auction. Transactions are paid on Lightning. This becomes the future ecosystem for digital services that are decoupled from fiat money, government regulated banking/payments, KYC/AML, censorship, and advertiser corrupted content moderation.
The protocol becomes the important prize. The social networking for human interactions almost falls by the wayside as an ancient demonstrator that has long ceded the spotlight to a rich landscape of decentralized digital services with a diversity that touches every problem domain, as people want to build things that are immune from debilitating attack (legal, political, hacking). Being unstoppable, ungovernable, and resilient will become table stakes for future services.
The protocol becomes the important prize. The social networking for human interactions almost falls by the wayside as an ancient demonstrator that has long ceded the spotlight to a rich landscape of decentralized digital services with a diversity that touches every problem domain, as people want to build things that are immune from debilitating attack (legal, political, hacking). Being unstoppable, ungovernable, and resilient will become table stakes for future services.