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#[59] is a Nostr skeptic and I think a nocoiner

Nostr skeptic? Haha. I point out Nostr notes are public and all metadata is unencrypted and public, which is unsuitable for DM's, and has no delete, and now I'm a skeptic. By that standard, jb55 is also a skeptic.

If not-a-skeptic means you refuse to point out facts of the matter about a thing, I hope I will never *not* be a skeptic.

I'm a blockchain abolitionist because it's a surveillance nightmare that didn't solve the generals problem without centralizing something, it just centralized the ledger. Nostr has decentralized ledgers. A blockchain is a centralized ledger (singular) distributed over a CDN. Distributed != decentralized.

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captain ☦️ 2y ago

Thanks for the clarification! I like the concept of decentralized ledgers.

nym 2y ago

They serve different purposes.

Hampus 2y ago 💬 1

I really wish people stopped doing nostr DMs.

blk014 2y ago 💬 2

@jb55 are DMs encrypted on nostr?

Micah541 2y ago

I thought that was the point

Lysander Spooner 2y ago

Only the `message` value is encrypted. All metadata is public, and your public IP's are logged at the relays. And the `message` value is decrypted by *any* party to the conversation's nsec, so even that obfuscation (not privacy, just obfuscation of a public record) can be undone without any fault of your own, by some other party leaking their key.

To see just how bad DMs are, login using jb55 or someone else's npub and take a look at the Messages. You can see who, when, how often, who sends more messages, what time of night, etc.