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me? no one locally uses nostr or bitcoin. i did however find a new friend that lives about 45 minutes away who is a bitcoiner and a nostrich through local word of mouth. we've since become friends. he signed up for OPA and found that another OPA users 2 hours away 😆

good luck on your app that should be rebuilt on top of Nostr 😉
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Club Orange 2y ago

Thanks Derek, we're definitely keeping a close tab on Nostr. As far as we can tell there are technological challenges in building a geolocated app with private DMs on Nostr. I've asked nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft to confirm our assumptions.

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PABLOF7z 2y ago

sorry, if you asked me something I might have missed it; what technical challenges are you hitting?

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Club Orange 2y ago

no worries, if we wanted to build OPA on Nostr, we would need to create a client (relay?) that has 3 main components

1) completely paywalled

2) pull users' device approx geolocation on every app launch (to show nearby users)

3) users can only communicate with each other via private DM (no feed)

Would this be feasible?

Here's a BTCSESSION tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrQIyP45UNs&t=2s&ab_channel=BTCSessions