https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/bitcoin-integration-nostr-could-redefine-social-media
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Replace “could” with “will”
I love your optimism, but it’s definitely still solidly in “could” territory.
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Think we're moving past the "first they ignore you" stage...
Stephanie Sats? Talk about winning the name lottery
"Nostr aims to decentralize private communications" ... wtf lol.
Private and Nostr do not belong in the same sentence.
Nothing preventing encrypted 1:1 though, right?
1. Encryption is obfuscation, not privacy. Private in data terminology means inaccessible; out of reach; not public.
2. Your encrypted content can be decrypted by ANY nsec leak which is party to the conversion. So it's not even in your hands. How many forms are your chat buddies pasting their nsec into?
3. The only encrypted part is the message content. Even with perfect security for all involved, anyone can see who you're messaging, how often, when - all the metadata is public af.
I hope it doesn't get any eyeballs before being corrected. "Nostr aims to decentralize public communications." Fixed. This was a false claim and I bet the OG devs like #[5] would agree.
You really don't appreciate how bad Nostr is for DM's until you do this:
Paste someone you find interesting's pubkey into any client and open Messages. You will see who is sliding into their DMs, when and how often they chat, who sends the most messages, how far apart, etc.
And nobody knows you looked. This is death to many relationships and vital business intelligence. Just scrolling this thread, I can tell you who is working with whom and who is hitting on whom behind the scenes.
Fair enough. I think the team at Monstr.app are working on #2 at the moment, though, trying to incorporate Signal protocol into nostr.
Nostr DMs are end-to-end encrypted.
Metadata is public.
Don’t treat DMs as particularly secure, they’re pretty simple an don’t have many of the good properties that existing E2EE messaging alternatives like Telegram/Signal/WhatsApp have (ratcheting keys, key exchange between two parties, etc.)
You leak your nsec and all your past DMs are readable and you’re easily impersonated. Also everyone can just see who you’re messaging and when, even if they can’t read it (because the DMs are jus events published to your relays like normal posts)
All true (:
Sadly, ZH is a contra indicator. They blocked me in 2013 when I tried to explain Bitcoin to them when they called it, “a Ponzi”. It’s easy for them to pretend that they’re prescient and have inside baseball now that it’s obvious, but the fact is that they’re goldbugs and silver stackers who know nothing about anything other than that. They’re pathetic and part of the problem that three or four companies on earth are going to solve. And you know who and which ones I’m talking about!
Yes I do!
And I think this was an external contributor writer?
Many such cases; bringing in outside expertise to cover the huge gaps in their in house thinking.
I consider being blocked by ZH a badge of honor. They lost credibility when they didn’t embrace bitcoin. Some gold bugs never change.
100% CORRECT. Here is one for you. https://youtu.be/ZqhmpQWU1sA
Listening now. Digging this album. Keep the music recos coming.
Did you mean companies or protocols?
man who didn't even bother to click on the link
ACK
https://youtu.be/FTD2mqPgOZo MISSING “A”.
It absolutely has.
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Well, it's pretty exciting to see this change.
Impressive article
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Why do you think Bitcoin it important to include in a decentralized social media platform?
Excelent!!
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To be honest, this is a pretty shitty article. Very confusing to read, almost like written by ChatGPT, the author clearly isn't sure at all what nostr is and how it works. Completely unclear how nostr and bitcoin are connected.
we shouldn’t shill both crypto and nostr. One and then the other. Currently crypto has a REALLY bad name to it.