Hate me for this comment but tie them together with OTS and you have a marriage fit for scaling to the world. Nostr lacks decentralized timestamping. Bitcoin can provide it.

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100% agree. Full love from me.

Oh phew. Now let’s see… the merkle roots for billions of events may require an easy to read, but prunable, function like OP_RETURN in order to store this “arbitrary” data in a trustless manner. We may need more than 40-80 bytes hmmm

Is this a sly, roundabout pitch for updating to Core 30?

I can’t tell people what to do, what to like, or what they should believe. The update will happen on the economic majority of nodes regardless of whether people like it or not.

What I am saying is: whatever the situation, we can and should make the most out of it. If there’s a function available that is now extremely useful for another equally important decentralized system then we should use it.

What’s OTS?

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Just curious how do timestamp calendars avoid spam?

They cost money

Yes but from the client side readme it seems like you can just get a timestamp from a calendar and it doesn't mention anything about payment requirements, like the on chain fee is covered by donations.

The current donation model would not work at full Nostr scale. They probably have some anti-spam measures in place already, but there would be a commercial model that replaces the donation model if this ever took off. IMO