I think bitcoin should be separated out from Nostr. Why should this social protocol be so tied to bitcoin? They're separate things. It's better for nostr and anyone who wants to escape the mainstream internet, cus many people aren't ready to get into bitcoin, but WOULD be willing to try Nostr.

Ok that's really cool lol. So many applications of simple, open little databases. View quoted note →

This kinda spooks me. I think it's unlikely that all the whales collude in such a way, but they theoretically could. View quoted note →

why is no one talking about the generic decryption issue with the nostr protocol anymore? There's been no progress on it since like 2025. the issue is that external signing apps decrypt whatever the nostr app asks it too, which means the app could just decrypt all of your private data and just take it.

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Is NIP-07 decryptEvent(event) a good idea? · Issue #1439 · nostr-protocol/nips

Currently, asking an extension to decrypt something may end up granting a too broad of a permission to an app. With a decryptEvent method, the exte...

Moderation design I'm not a huge fan that individual users own substrs. You could do it like Mirage does it and just use hashtags instead of a whole thing to own and moderate. I feel like part of the point of nostr is community moderation. It doesn't make much sense to re-centralize control, in my opinion. What do y'all think?

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