60 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 13 Aug 2023 \ on: Payjoin over Nostr bitcoin
I love seeing nostr get used like this. This seems much more likely to succeed than relying on a payjoin-specific service being run.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @broadmode 13 Aug 2023
Same, I'm into it. I had not thought of #Nostr being used as a messaging bus before. I guess #Bitcoin enables much more generalized internet primitives...
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 13 Aug 2023
I hadn't been thinking about nostr like this either at first.
A nostr relay is a generic store-and-[text]-stream service. The social media use case seems to be incentivizing people run them but these other use cases are super interesting.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthzar 13 Aug 2023
I wish more people could see the potential of those other use-cases.
Imagine how many applications would exist now, if only they didn't have to spend billions of dollars per year on servers and staff. Uber costs $10 billion and has 32k+ employees. Meanwhile, Bullrun was made by a few programmers in their spare time, and it uses Nostr as it's backend. Imagine how many Nostr apps don't exist now, because most of the focus on social media.
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