Just ignore ‘em… these vague analogies are the last resort of haters.

I think the future of #nostr is promising… Robin is writing the BitStream paper as we speak. As reliance on webservers fade and multimedia relay discovery/syncing improves, Nostr will evolve into a historically unprecedented network. Bitstream enabling users to pay for data bit by bit, like cell phone minutes, will enable many relays around the world to stay in-business.

The more relays there are, the more distributed the data will be — that’s what defines decentralization. The payment is trust-minimized because the relay can’t claim the payment unless the file chunk matches the chunk requested by the user.

Both axises will be covered: trust-minimized monetization and the decentralization of data.