Not to be a dick but that is kinda how the Blockchain works.
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i kind of knew that but i didnt think of this angle....so this is kind of weird to me, because all i can think of is if certain groups or companies dominate bitcoin then we are beholden to them and thats it...so if it is global then how do we prevent it becoming such a small dictatorship vs what we have today?
Certain companies dominate Bitcoin.... In what sense. Bitcoin is a public ledger no one can stop you from using it, and the otherside of that is, we can't stop anyone from using it. If their tx follow CURRENT rule set it's valid.
People are currently using Bitcoin to scam people out of sats(ordinals).
So tx fees are kinda high, nothing compared to some recent times, but elevated none the less.
I'm still kinda confused. Are you saying what's stopping companies from pushing their bias onto Bitcoin?
The block chain can suck a dick then if it expects me to use this as money and conduct business with it.
I'm just saying. Don't be mad at the software, it didn't steal anything from you, neither did Phoenix wallet. Are they pansy for preemptively removing their software, absolutely.
And you have every right to feel that way, but claiming someone stole your funds is a bad look on you.
but why not reimburse their customers before removing their software?
They never had control over your funds. They also are just removing their app from the App Store to be compliant; nothing changes about their existing software.
They clearly said that they are on longer servicing the USA.
Because all you had to do what delete their play store app, download the APK from GitHub and restore your seed.
That would be the easy simple solution.
No need to reimburse anyone. Just get the app from somewhere other than the play store.
The software isn't going away, your centralized access to it is.
oh ok ty
Of course any other questions just reach out. We are all here to learn
so essentially, or technically, nostr could eventually have their own "centralized" app store where users could get the apk and download to their comps or phones, and bypass android, apple, etc?
Yes things like this exist now, f-droid is an example, it allows users to download android apks without a google account.
Other options include downloading the APK straight from GitHub..
The play store and apple iOS store, their respective companies decide what is allowed and not allowed.
Well the only thing centralized about the app stores is that the companies are sole deciders if the app should be approved.
@jb55 went through that with Damus and iOS over the last year or so.
So the feds can pressure Google to remove an app, either with asking or court order like samourais case.
Tldr.
Yes with third party app stores, like f-droid, or downloading the APK from the source,GitHub, you bypass android appstore stuff.
iOS doesn't currently allow you to 'sideload' apps, 'sideload' just means installing from somewhere other than the official play store.
so what if they just go have github?
Well that's an attack vector for sure, GitHub is currently owned by Microsoft. But iirc there is a GitHub nostr project to hopefully remove that attack vector.
But you are absolutely right.
And all that would do is stop new people from getting the APK, it wouldn't retroactively remove it from your device, afaik.
It wouldnt have an effect on those who already downloaded the APK.
Also I can always pull my APK from my phone and upload it somewhere for others. So as long as one person has the app I'm pretty sure it can be pulled off phone repackaged as a downloadable APK so I could share it with whoever.
Not super positive how easy/hard it is. But pretty sure it's doable.
There is a project called radicle that is like nostr but for github. git is inherently decentralized