Jameson Lopp on Nostr: Meh. What is non-monetary data? I mean from an information theory perspective. Sure, ...
Meh. What is non-monetary data? I mean from an information theory perspective.
Sure, some data blobs that can be decoded into TXT or JPEG are obvious.
But if you see a blob of data and have no clue how to interpret it, how can you claim that it's non-monetary? It could be an anchor for a monetary second layer.
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