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All the degenerate token-fueled web3 hype of 2021 sold a bunch of dreams about decentralization and owning your social graph to unsuspecting retail and then delivered nothing but rugpulls and bankruptcy letters.

Meanwhile, nostr built a system people actually use on top of open protocols. No tokens, no blockchains. Only notes and other stuff transmitted over relays.

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To be fair to the Web3 hustlers, they never cared one iota that every 'decentralized app' was either a coin exchange, NFT marketplace or some hideous Pay to Earn abomination passing itself off as a 'game'. They pointed at every one of these snake oil machines and said "here's proof that it's being adopted".

The relationship to Bitcoin makes me nervous, though. I don't understand it, but even the mention of it makes me want to write off the whole protocol because i'm just that averse to crypto, and tried of seeing repeated crypto grifts.

Bitcoin and nostr are completely separate protocols, but they just so happen to have a level of interoperability. You can use either system without ever touching (or caring) about the other.

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