Nostr Web Client

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PABLOF7z

Some people are still confused why nostr DEPENDS on bitcoin to be decentralized.

It's not the zaps, it's not spam prevention

Building and running nostr infrastructure has a cost,

Like anything that incurs a cost, the underlying layers of how that cost is settled determine its attributes.

Layer 1: Money

Layer 2: Payment rails

Anything built on top of these layers can be as censorship-resistant as the layers themselves, but not more.

If these layers are not censorship-resistant, anything built on top of them will by necessity also not be.

Bryon D Bothun 2y ago

Is there a good resource that describes the relationship between Nostr and Bitcoin? How is it a layer on top?

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PABLOF7z 2y ago

Not sure if there’s something else: I only wrote that 👆so far.

Do you have any questions that might help me expand on it? Did you see the other responses I wrote to other notes here?

Bryon D Bothun 2y ago

I haven’t seen your other replies but I’ll go look now. I see that they both depend on public/private key pairs and I imagine relays are similar to nodes but is Bitcoin code somehow at the base of Nostr?

PABLOF7z 2y ago

not technically, just economically