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Nice (blog author here); just heard this showed up on the frontpage from someone on Nostr.

If I was writing an update to this, I'd probably point out how much better the clients (especially mobile) have gotten, in such a short span of time. As well as how lightning integration (zaps) are letting us build new capabilities (instead of just cloning twitter) that don't exist anywhere else.

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Glad its getting traction, it was a fun read and introduced me to something new (tm). One issue I had about 'Zaps' was the 'pay-to-play' aspect which seemed in discord/disharmony with the OG vision of Solving the Right Problems

There is no blockchain. No proprietary social sign-in. No “real-name policy” No distributed hash table, onion routing, raft consensus, or peer-to-peer protocol. There is just a method of providing simple digitally signed text, and a simple, scalable search service.

I mean I get it aaannnndd 54 lines of Spec etc and there is a need for something like you offer/describe and I'm glad to have stumbled across the link that lead to this blog that leads to the GH <phew!>

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Lightning already exists; so it is nice that a simple protocol can integrate with it. I view them as complementary - it is good that Nostr does not need crypto, but it is still cool that they can harmonize without changing the core protocol.

It does solve a fundamental incentive problem of "who runs big relays".