⚡ I would argue the value exchange bit needs to be in the core of Nostr, right alongside the content message bit. And it should be enforced some way at that protocol level. If it is direct reader-creator with no intermediaries necessary across the whole network, no clients, no companies, no government, no banks, etc, etc, that would be really big. A massive flattening of the content-value-exchange loop. Imagine what that would do to journalism and media and video creation and songs and writing and all the rest, all around the world.
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Tricky, you need lightning channels between sender and receiver, and all that comes with that. You can't bake that into a messaging protocol. And all that payment stuff is already uncensorable, the clients just need to tap into it, which they are learning to do now.
Right. I mean that at the minute it depends on the clients, which is or could be a problem for the content creators and publishers, becuase of the relays and things. Imagine you spend X hours and X money on creating a piece of content, and then publish it on Nostr, and you can't control how much of it is shown for free or which clients show which bits of it or have enabled or not which value exchange options. If publishers look at Nostr and see all their costly-to-create content just flowing out forever for free, they won't use it. If the value exchange bits are baked in somehow across the whole network, it will be a different story.