Fair enough. However since it seems to me that you have put a lot of genuine thought and good effort into your project, I feel obligated to tell you that I don't see the point. Darknet marketplaces and crypto invoice services already do a lot of work to enable secure and anonymous commerce, and I can't see how Nostr would enable anything better.
In fact, every single Nostr project I've seen so far suffers from the same fundamental flaw. Nostr is a solution looking for a problem, and none of the people developing for Nostr actually have a problem they need Nostr to solve.
It's bizarre to me. It all seems so disengenuous and artificial. I just want to understand why people are trying so hard. Is everybody here a scounrel who has been kicked out of 109 communities and they had no choice but to find one where they control their own account?
The only hypothesis that makes sense to me is that they are all people trying to earn money without creating value by artificially inflating how popular and useful Bitcoin appears with a million useless little projects using it. That would explain a lot, but I think my time is better spent trying to find alternative explanations.
Do you have any insight?
Scoundrel
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2025-06-11 22:44:23
in reply to nevent1q…t4dm
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