actually, no, i've been observing the same thing.

go look at the talk video. it's in SD. you can't read anything of the slides he made.

making a judgement of a project building on nostr based on you personal aesthetic and not even looking for a second at its technical merits shows exactly where the problem lies here.

mids who want everything to be about them and are riding the trending algorithm while attacking the very system they are propped up by.

anyone with any understanding of distributed systems can tell you that the protocol of nostr is severely lacking in any mechanism for consistency.

not only that, your complaint is completely ridiculous. the whitepaper for scionic merkle dags is like 5 pages long and it's got nothing to do with shitcoins, and it's main author is someone who has academic chops and past work behind them.

part of the reason why it bothers me is because i've had a substantial amount of a protocol design, mostly implemented, for about 9 months now and can't find any way to bring it any further, even though it solves the problem of scaling with teh tor network, and creates a general paywalling mechanism for resource access online, without compromising privacy of users, and with the capability to protect the providers as well.