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You could defeat this by using an ephemeral, one time use key pair for this transaction.

How can you know that the payer isn't giving you a fake token?

When someone receives ecash tokens, their wallet checks they are valid with the issuing mint. They do this by getting the mint to ” melt " the tokens to new tokens that are linked to their key. The paid tokens are then invalid at the mint and are useless to the payer, meaning that he cannot pay someone else because the mint won't melt them twice.

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The introduction of badges changed Reddit for me. The psychological need to continue using Reddit to continue my daily streak is strong.

I noticed this after the first few badges. 5 days 10, 20, 30, etc. I wanted to keep going because I was getting notifications that I was completing something special.

After earning a couple badges, I found myself forcing myself to use Reddit every day just to keep my streak alive. Then, badges started to become more rare in quality as the streak day count increased. I wanted to collect them all! I wanted to see if I could earn the legendary ones. 365 days? 500 days? Hell yeah!

I don't particularly care about Reddit all that much. Most days I'd be fine just reading. I don't need to upvote or downvote. Or at least I thought I didn't? Badges changed that for me.

I see this with my children, especially my daughter. Her and her friends all use Snapchat to communicate. She cares about keeping her streaks alive with friends. It's a silly little indicator in Snapchat, just like Reddit, that keeps pulling people back in.

I know that we all recognize the issues with legacy social media. I know these tactics are meant to keep bringing us back, so that the algorithms can keep us enraged and engaged, to steal our attention. We can do better!

It's no secret that user retention is horrible across the Nostr ecosystem. Could a Nostr client implement something similar to these streak badges without the negative aspects to keep people coming back? Definitely.

Nostr doesn't have evil algorithms. (Someone could build one though. It's an open protocol!) I believe a developer could implement a similar feature to draw people back into their application. We have a badges spec. The badge could be automatically assigned and displayed on the user profile as their engagement increases.

I guess technically this doesn't even need to be implemented by a specific client. Someone could essentially write a DVM for this, right? This would be a large task though. The DVM could use the nostr.band API or search.nostr.wine API or something similar to do this and assign these streak badges automatically across "all of Nostr" or even just a specific set of relays. Relay operators could implement something such as this too. It's all possible.

Thoughts?

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Don't bring addictive, psychological gamefication to clients. Personally, in other apps, I disable them if possible. If that's not possible, I ignore them. If that's not possible, I delete the app and find an alternative that isn't trying to manipulate their user stats for their VC decks or quarterly reports.

1.) There is nothing wrong with renting property you own because you have already produced enough to own it. Taking advantage of a credit score system to loan money to rent out a property to someone that can't loan money to buy the property is fiat shenanigans, but it's as free a market as we can get on the bullshit fake money standard we are on.

2.) As a shareholder of a company you are dependant on the employees of the company's work in order to profit. Welcome to capitalism, you sound like a communist.

3.) Real estate people are measuring in FIAT! Dollars are a USA thing and real estate is worldwide.

Well I mean it's kind of like a clock for blocks, but that's talken I heard. How about timechain chronometer? If it looks better it should sound fancier.

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