ESPN on Nostr: Very good question Although, history repeats and rhymes... and apparently does it ...
Very good question
Although, history repeats and rhymes... and apparently does it often... therefore...
Bitcoin is becoming a good example, most development around bitcoin is about monetization, utility, but not security, nor making it censorship resistance.
Being in the know since 2010, not using it to transact since it is not built with sufficient privacy by default to achieve that, devs around fighting each other and not inspiring trust doesn't help neither.
Sometimes I wonder WTF Satoshi was thinking making such a wonderful mathematical marvel with no privacy to transact ...
As a store of value is the kind of the land, unbeaten, as a currency to transact, to pay for good and services, nah, pass, much better privacy options out there.
Although, history repeats and rhymes... and apparently does it often... therefore...
Bitcoin is becoming a good example, most development around bitcoin is about monetization, utility, but not security, nor making it censorship resistance.
Being in the know since 2010, not using it to transact since it is not built with sufficient privacy by default to achieve that, devs around fighting each other and not inspiring trust doesn't help neither.
Sometimes I wonder WTF Satoshi was thinking making such a wonderful mathematical marvel with no privacy to transact ...
As a store of value is the kind of the land, unbeaten, as a currency to transact, to pay for good and services, nah, pass, much better privacy options out there.
quoting nevent1q…9knlSimple Mail Transfer Protocol "SMTP" ended up being rather captured/centralized toward an oligopoly over time in an effort to manage spam.
Here's another #asknostr for today:
What aspects of Nostr's design will make it more resistant to that fate? The social graph web of trust element?