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certainly,

someone somehow has to operate relays. The cost of operating relays must be settled somehow (i.e., paid relays)

If the relay operator were to use a non-censorship-resistant money + payment rail, the funding of that relay is *subject* to the approval of whoever can censor that money or those transactions.

Say a relay operator were to take USDC as payment: the US government could instantly shutdown that relay by knocking on the issuer of USDC and blocking those funds.

myself 2y ago

I'd argue it doesn't depend on bitcoin. But bitcoin does certainly serve Nostr well.

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PABLOF7z 2y ago

how else can infrastructure providers and builders run things without being subject to defunding?

SheBytes 2y ago

Can someone post a network diagram of how Nostr works / is architected?

PABLOF7z 2y ago

#[4]'s

https://nostr.how/the-protocol

SheBytes 2y ago

Zapped and zapped !!!

PABLOF7z 2y ago

#[5] is definitely zapworthy 👍

JeffG 2y ago

Been meaning to make something more visual. Big updates to Nostr.how this week. I’ll try and squeeze it in.

myself 2y ago

The free market can figure that out. It seems like Bitcoin is the logical choice, but if Bitcoin were to be shutdown or otherwise unable to serve Nostr for whatever reason then some other solution would be found for sure.

PABLOF7z 2y ago

yeah, I used bitcoin as a proxy to "censorship-resistant money".

It could be read as "something-with-bitcoin-properties," but the point is that censorship-resistant technology cannot be built on top of non-censorship-resistant money+payment rails

myself 2y ago

I can agree with that