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Nostr is not crypto. It doesn't use crypto or blockchains in any way. Crypto is the reward for the bounty.

No, but I’ve only ever heard it promoted by cryptocurrency people and it shares the wooly thinking about privacy, censorship, etc. common in that space. In this case, you can see that both from the bitcoin people pushing the idea and their signature tendency to push complicated technology as the solution to a social dynamic.

Regardless of who likes the idea, nostr becoming successful would do nothing to boost cryptocurrency.

Wooly thinking begets wooly thinking, I see.

Even if you hate all cryptocurrencies and financial use cases, the space has spurred a ton of new and interesting applied research. Ignoring eg BLS signatures and multiparty computation because of affinity with cryptocurrency isn't rational.

I’m not ignoring it, just being realistic about what it can do and where the problem needs a technical solution. There are people I respect working in the space but they are mostly getting ignored since pragmatic research doesn’t promise a gold rush.

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