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Interesting comment by Peter Todd when discussing the possible use of nostr as a new protocol for the bitcoin-dev mailing list. His comments are not particular to that usage though:

"

Strong NACK on nostr. It's a badly designed, centralized, protocol that needs a

significant redesign to be usable. While off topic for this mailing list, some

of its many issues include:

* Reliance on single-key, cryptography that often results in people having

their keys compromised. This is a serious problem in the context of

bitcoin-dev, where faked messages published could easily have market-moving

results.

* Inability to mirror relays: since nostr deliberately ignores the lessons of

blockchains, there is no way to be sure that you have a complete set of

messages from a given person, for a given topic, etc.

* Highly centralized design: since mirroring relays isn't reliable, in reality

nostr operates in a highly centralized fashion, dependent on a tiny number of

relays that can't be easily replaced if taken down.

"

He was replying to this proposal by nostr:npub19jescdjr3wk552j3q77f3awwhe4qy2ds24xce773exd28nr7emqsm2pt7r (I believe).

nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft nostr:npub1qqqqqqyz0la2jjl752yv8h7wgs3v098mh9nztd4nr6gynaef6uqqt0n47m nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

Yeah that was me, I disagree with most of nostr:nprofile1qqsve2jcud7fnjzmchn4gq52wx9agey9uhfukv69dy0v4wpuw4w53nqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs7amnwvaz7tmwduh8xarj9e3hyqg6waehxw309aex2mrp0yhx7unpdenk2urfd3kzuer9wc5cyenz 's objections, but if we had key delegation I could have replied to this days ago when it was fresh 😉 (I was away from my key-carrying PC, because key handling is so important).

It's kind of a moot point anyway because we don't have 6 months like I mistakenly thought, but instead more like 6 weeks.

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I like that it sparked some interesting discussions 😃

My opinion is that mailing lists UX is better simply due to the decades of e-mail development and its ubiquity. For that UC probably nostr is not the best fit. Even though it would certainly be capable.

But just because something is possible doesn't mean it needs to be done.