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Been attempting to wrap my head around this. So “Nostr” is like the base layer & people can build their own “layer two’s” Damus being one of these? Is that correct? I plan on going down this rabbit hole but your post caught my attention
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0xtr 3y ago

> nostr is the base layer

no not really. Nostr is just a set of documents that defines certain standards/rules which makes up the nostr protocol. These documents are called NIPs and can be found here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips. NIP-01 defines the basic protocol and the other NIPs are basically extensions to the protocol.

Clients such as Damus and Astral will build their clients to adhere to one or more of these standards(NIPs). They’re not “layer two’s” or anything, it’s just software built based on a certain standard. Kind of like how Bitcoin wallets are built based on BIPs(Bitcoin Improvement Proposals, https://github.com/bitcoin/bips).

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nobody 3y ago

Ok gotcha, that makes sense to me. Thanks mate👍🏼

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ricko 3y ago

that helps. Thanks.

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nobody 3y ago

Also found this very helpful thread on Twitter, had to use “translate” as it’s in Spanish, but answers a lot of questions.

https://twitter.com/ishikawa_btc/status/1607406625358225409?s=46&t=e5eaiAyh_5p_vWyjYAe9kA

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nobody 3y ago

Starting to understand the implications & why so many “tech savvy” are so enthusiastic about Nostr! Exciting times! Going to be awesome to watch this evolve from the ground up🔥

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0xtr 3y ago

#[2], I don’t really like that the URLs are removed from the text here tbh

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jb55 3y ago

Yeah me either