Nostr Web Client

"man, that's old school"

was the comment I got when I explained how I sell blankets on nostr.

I found that to be so amusing because nostr, Bitcoin and the lightning network are arguably "new school" since the technology is pretty fresh.

but yes, fundamentally, how I do business on nostr is old school.

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them: when people want to buy, they just message you?

me: yeah, then I send them a lightning invoice

okay so they pay it. is it like instantaneous?

pretty much

so you have their money but you haven't even made the blanket yet. wait! that means...

yeah, I could totally scam them.

you totally could!

right, but I don't. I don't because I want their business. my reputation is tied to my npub. the longer I do good business, the better my reputation.

man, that's old school.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 9mo ago

so the new school is lie, cheat and scam?

we need the old school back then

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karo 9mo ago

I think the intent is that new school has a lot of security and trust tools built into the tech to prevent lying, cheating and scamming but old school just relies on human trust.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 9mo ago

well, yeah, well designed protocols... but protocols existed long before computers, they are just a procedure or ritual

the fraud is still an imposition and a conspiracy and the protocols are countermeasures, you could say that bitcoin was the first, and nostr is now the second protocol that has mechanisms built into it that make deception more difficult