Nostr has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.

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A lot of people automatically dismiss e-currency as a lost cause because of all the companies that failed since the 1990's. I hope it's obvious it was only the centrally controlled nature of those systems that doomed them. I think this is the first time we're trying a decentralized, non-trust-based system.

you are probably somewhat correct here. i don't know if the obviousness of centralized versus decentralized would be obvious for everyone though. that said, it takes a generation for people to realize that a product, service, or something is going to just always be there. this will happen soon enough with bitcoin.

Indeed. I was just replying to a Satoshi quote with another Satoshi quote 😃

#nostr is good for bitcoin because it makes bitcoin taproot Turing Complete

Decentralization just gives users more possibilities. They wont come for the decentralization, they'll come for the apps and functionality

Hmm. I have failed. I did not realize either of those were Satoshi quotes. 😉

Can you please elaborate on “nostr makes bitcoin taproot Turing Complete”?

Bitcoin scripts use taproot, but they are purposefully limited

#nostr takes taproot, and is much more powerful and expressive. Two main things that are added to make something Turing Complete are conditional branching (logic) and loops (repeatability).

The result is that any type of computation can be run on nostr. Furthermore, it will be possible to anchor certain things to the block chain, if needed, giving audibility and tamper proof systems