Decentralized money. Decentralized communication. With each new pleb that shows up in my global feed I grow more bullish on both. We're not stopping either. We're building. We're growing. What a time to be alive.

is it needed? no. is it nice to have? absolutely. it helps people find you by ID. it helps make your public key human readable. it helps determine that "name@domain1.com" is different than "name@domain2.com" and different than "name".

Note that Tor works without “incentives” or charging for messages…it is a different system but that is something to consider.