There's more connecting all of this. It's all in a poem, funnily enough.
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The key part is to look at the components as they present themselves in real life.
Bitcoin replicated meat-space money, best version of it at that.
What are we replicating digitally? It's so simple to see if you stumble upon that poem.
As soon as "chat", "social network", "such as Y" is used you've gone miles past the exit. Lower level than that. With everything connecting it.
At a more abstract level of analysis, I think the problem we're trying to solve is a distributed consensus mechanism, not for transactions, but arbitrary data. Solving decentralized GitHub and Wikipedia are the same problem.
I have a feeling that a chain of Nostr events linked by digital signatures will be part of the solution. I'll keep making hellthreads until someone builds a UI for them.
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