Is @npub17fe5...nzuc a honey pot? 🍯 A marketplace needs buyers and sellers trusting each other enough to transact, and pseudonymity with #Bitcoin is the trust mechanism that makes that pitch work. But if the operator can see participant's real Google email, then the marketplace isn't a peer-to-peer exchange between strangers. It's a platform where one party knows exactly who everyone is, which is the Facebook model wearing a #Nostr costume. The Bitcoin and pseudonymity language is what gets libertarian-leaning users in the door. The email graph is what makes the business valuable to whoever's actually paying for it. View quoted note →