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• XLE@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can you provide any counterevidence to the claims?

  To quote them: “Nostr was kickstarted mostly by a community of Bitcoiners, so it has disproportionately attracted the attention of Bitcoiners.”

  The “optional” Bitcoin payment system is baked into the biggest Nostr clients.

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  • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The claim was:

    The protocol was built to exchange cryptocurrency over it.

    Not:

    The protocol attracted attention primarily from Bitcoiners who built tools around it to support payments

    The new, watered-down framing of your claim sorta just makes me think: “Okay? And?”

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    • XLE@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I asked you for counterevidence to the claims, not apologism. The fact they left the smoking gun on their own website is enough for me, but clearly you have an agenda of your own.

      Unless you expect everyone here to believe that the protocol, the clients, the funders, and the creators all just coincidentally love Bitcoin, you’ve got a lot of explaining to do.

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      • iloveDigit@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I asked you for counterevidence to the claims, not apologism.

        OK. The inventor of nostr’s own wiki entry for nostr defines it as a thing for sending tweets, with zero mention of exchanging cryptocurrency.

        Also, as a nostr veteran, I have no idea how you’d exchange cryptocurrency on nostr except just asking random people to trade with you. I don’t see why you wouldn’t just use bisq or haveno if you want decentralized crypto trading

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      • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I asked you for counterevidence to the claims, not apologism.

        Then you don’t know how burden of proof works. Instead of demanding that you back up your claim, I accepted that you wanted to water it down and refine it into something you could better defend.

        Do you want me to have forced you to back up your original claim and devolve into semantics?

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  instead of asking obviously leading questions, why not tell people what you know?

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  • iloveDigit@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s wrong with using rhetorical questions as a response when people talk shit without expanding on it?

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      depends on the thing you’re asking about.

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      • iloveDigit@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The example we were discussing

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  • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That wasn’t a question…

    If people are going to make wild assertions, I’m going to question them about them.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      your previous two replies were. and by “just asking questions” about things you obviously know more about, you’re not adding to the conversation.

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      • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So if someone says “the moon is made is of unicorns” and I say “what are you talking about? no it isn’t…” is that JAQing off? I’d call it challenging someone making an absurd claim.

        There aren’t any concepts or domain expertise I’m hiding here – I’m merely saying “wtf are you talking about??” to someone spouting off random nonsense.

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