<![CDATA[avi chand]]> https://avichand.npub.pro/tag/nostr/ https://avichand.npub.pro/tag/nostr/rss/ episodic Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:31:50 GMT Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:31:50 GMT <![CDATA[Bitcoin and Nostr apps need to be a legit, well-known thing]]> Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:31:50 GMT https://avichand.npub.pro/post/1705670312476/ https://avichand.npub.pro/post/1705670312476/ naddr1qqxnzdesx5mrwvpnxyergdekqgs9qqktfpaxuqa8s8fqkng3t07qa94t77qzmxayaeyawkszxxsddkqrqsqqqa28zdyufk bitcoin naddr1qqxnzdesx5mrwvpnxyergdekqgs9qqktfpaxuqa8s8fqkng3t07qa94t77qzmxayaeyawkszxxsddkqrqsqqqa28zdyufk npub12qpvkjr6dcp60qwjpdx3zklup6t2hauq9kd6fmjf6adqyvdq6mvqv2v8cz So, a creator on Twitter wrote that she wished there was an easier way for creators to get paid or tipped on Twitter. I told her about Nostr and the Lightning Network / Satoshi, where tipping is as easy as zapping sats. Another user, a self-confessed technologist, jumped in on the thread and remarked, "but crypto fees are so high".

This is a completely wrong notion and a lot of people have it when it comes to Bitcoin and Nostr apps. There are no "crypto fees" involved in Bitcoin and Nostr apps. Transactions - where you pay or get paid - in Bitcoin and Nostr apps are processed off-chain on the Lightning Network - a separate payment layer built atop the Bitcoin blockchain.

I was surprised by this complete lack of awareness or knowledge of the Lightning Network and the Satoshi (one hundred millionth of a Bitcoin). This is both a huge challenge and a huge opportunity to scale Bitcoin apps like Stacker, Wavlake, Pinstr, and Habla. People continue to think that Bitcoin is something "those people do there". They still confuse Bitcoin apps with Blockchain and Web3 apps. They don't realize or know that Bitcoin apps and the Lightning Network have been created to solve precisely those set of problems around scaling Bitcoin. This lack of general awareness around the Lightning Network is a huge challenge.

So, I think there has to be a lot of outreach to convince people that Bitcoin and Nostr apps are really simple and straightforward to use for creators and involve an element of simple payments, where no third-party apps or gateways except lightning wallets are needed. This thing needs great packaging and marketing of the phenomenal value proposition of Bitcoin and Nostr apps.

]]> So, a creator on Twitter wrote that she wished there was an easier way for creators to get paid or tipped on Twitter. I told her about Nostr and the Lightning Network / Satoshi, where tipping is as easy as zapping sats. Another user, a self-confessed technologist, jumped in on the thread and remarked, "but crypto fees are so high".

This is a completely wrong notion and a lot of people have it when it comes to Bitcoin and Nostr apps. There are no "crypto fees" involved in Bitcoin and Nostr apps. Transactions - where you pay or get paid - in Bitcoin and Nostr apps are processed off-chain on the Lightning Network - a separate payment layer built atop the Bitcoin blockchain.

I was surprised by this complete lack of awareness or knowledge of the Lightning Network and the Satoshi (one hundred millionth of a Bitcoin). This is both a huge challenge and a huge opportunity to scale Bitcoin apps like Stacker, Wavlake, Pinstr, and Habla. People continue to think that Bitcoin is something "those people do there". They still confuse Bitcoin apps with Blockchain and Web3 apps. They don't realize or know that Bitcoin apps and the Lightning Network have been created to solve precisely those set of problems around scaling Bitcoin. This lack of general awareness around the Lightning Network is a huge challenge.

So, I think there has to be a lot of outreach to convince people that Bitcoin and Nostr apps are really simple and straightforward to use for creators and involve an element of simple payments, where no third-party apps or gateways except lightning wallets are needed. This thing needs great packaging and marketing of the phenomenal value proposition of Bitcoin and Nostr apps.

]]> <![CDATA[Why aren't vanity URLs standard on all Nostr apps?]]> Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:20:00 GMT https://avichand.npub.pro/post/1698517124875/ https://avichand.npub.pro/post/1698517124875/ naddr1qqxnzd3e8q6nzde3xg6rsde4qgs9qqktfpaxuqa8s8fqkng3t07qa94t77qzmxayaeyawkszxxsddkqrqsqqqa286c29a0 nostr naddr1qqxnzd3e8q6nzde3xg6rsde4qgs9qqktfpaxuqa8s8fqkng3t07qa94t77qzmxayaeyawkszxxsddkqrqsqqqa286c29a0 npub12qpvkjr6dcp60qwjpdx3zklup6t2hauq9kd6fmjf6adqyvdq6mvqv2v8cz I am just wondering why vanity URLs are not standard on all Nostr apps, when my metadata linking my public key to a username is published to all relays and therefore available to all apps (or is it?)?

Why isn't appname.com/username the de-facto standard?

For example, I am https://primal.net/avichand on the Primal app, but not so on the Nostr.band app or the Coracle app.

Why is this so?

]]> I am just wondering why vanity URLs are not standard on all Nostr apps, when my metadata linking my public key to a username is published to all relays and therefore available to all apps (or is it?)?

Why isn't appname.com/username the de-facto standard?

For example, I am https://primal.net/avichand on the Primal app, but not so on the Nostr.band app or the Coracle app.

Why is this so?

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