Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

DanConwayDev _@danconwaydev.com 1 year ago

its an interesting journey they have been on. v1 used IPFS. v2 used Secure Scuttlebut. Now they are on version 3 which uses a custom gossip model. 2 years ago the Rad token was prominent and Etherium integration was under active development. For example in this video someone from Radicle tries to put a ownership attestation of a git repository onto the ETH chain but gas fees were $700 so they didn't have enough in their wallet. There now appears to be no mention of etherium and Radicle "doesn't use nor depend on any blockchain or cryptocurrency"

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ me@mleku.dev 1 year ago

yeah, not surprising in my work the relation to cryptocurrency projects is for providing a distributed database store for nostr... and it seems to be very contentious... the new "arweave" project aims squarely at this use case and deprecates focus on tokens and all that other shit honestly, i'm just waiting for people to finally realise that it should be possible to make a bet on a tech project without all this rigmerole they would save on building stupid tokens into their distributed databases at least

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DanConwayDev _@danconwaydev.com 1 year ago

bth I'm not that familiar with web3 culture. As an bitcoiner (outsider), part of me wants to believe that builders create tokens purely to access VC funding for a project with laudable cyperpunk goals; with the intention of stripping it out later. Perhaps they genuinely believe that creating a token can lead to decentralisation. I don't want to be that most of web3 is just greedy people stealing from the vulnerable. What is your assessment @ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ ?