If value is subjective, then the store of value is in your head.
Wouldn't it be cool if you could use your public key as a domain name?
fwiw We didn't "see nostr and think" anything really. As you know, we have been researching this stuff since before nostr existed. Bluesky too.
What we saw were problems and what we have is a comprehensive vision for an ecosystem we are solving for. We didn't use Nostr because it does not meet requirements and attempts to interface with Nostr people were always retarded.
Yes, there is a big distinction between "discovery" of endpoints for an identity vs "discovery" of identities and content you like. Obv, these are very different topics.
Feel free to continue glossing over the first one, but you have to admit Pubky(pkarr/pkdns) is a strict improvement over nostr in that regard.
For the second form of discovery (of content), Nostr won't have any special advantage over any other platform as there is no novel method in Nostr. In fact, Nostr is likely to have more trouble due to uncertainty around relays and data (and the other form of discovery).
In Pubky, we do in fact have an intentional design for identity and content discovery, and it is mostly novel.
We use a Semantic Social Graph, which creates subjective relationships between keys and URLs. This graph can then be applied as filters or by distance and weight, like a WoT.
In the end, you can't have perfect p2p web, so you must design for scaled and trusted use cases. We can offer the people competition and interoperation within an open ecosystem, but everyone needs services indexing, cloud hosting, moderation, etc.
BIP 177 for Dummies
https://bitcoinerrorlog.medium.com/bip-177-for-dummies-3993db575490
It's still a minority, but a lot more people are becoming interested in the idea of calling the base units of Bitcoin bitcoins.
There is a problem. People think it is divisible. It is not. Dividing is multiplying here. This makes people infer incorrect things about how Bitcoin works.
Some people disagree with you, and your arguments are all speculative and subjective, so, it is what it is.
It is confusing already and people just live in ignorance.
What is "hardcoded" is a limit of 2.1 quadrillion base units.
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Well, if everyone thought it was divisible, then people that know otherwise can exploit that to multiple the qty of bitcoin later.
So it's actually pretty important.
You don't lose anything. You can continue to worship any arbitrary denomination of units you want.
You could call them megabitcoins, or even BTC.
Names are subjective anyway.
But now, if you do, you will know you are being arbitrary and incorrect :)
The intent is face value in the BIP. I sincerely think this is the best way to portray bitcoin and that doing will prevent people from being misinformed about Bitcoin divisibility and its lack thereof.
The whole "pizza" meme think was frustrating for me because all that should have happened was some correcting her to let her know Bitcoin is not even divisible!
That is one purpose of the BIP, to force people to learn that Bitcoin is not actually divisible and we cannot add more decimals places because it uses whole integers.
