Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2024-06-27 19:47:15

vinney on Nostr: I hate to be the pain in the ass who makes this pedantic point because I generally ...

I hate to be the pain in the ass who makes this pedantic point because I generally want the things being said here, but:
That IS a "cloud".

A network of remote devices, the vast majority of which are not yours, that provide compute and data for each other or for edge devices. That's a cloud.

The term "cloud" has unfortunately become synonymous with "centralized MEGACORP spying servers", but it could just as fairly be applied to a dark net of voluntary peer-to-peer nodes.
My point being: let's recapture the "cloud" and celebrate it, rather than tie our hands behind our backs trying to avoid "other people's computers". Relays are other people's computers. This is good.
Two things that we're building:

- There are going to be Cashu mints that will only be reachable via Nostr. They won't have IP addresses but npubs.
- There are going to be Cashu wallets that synchronize state across devices via nostr. No cloud.

Not everyone will like this but it doesn't matter because it can't be stopped.
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