Some people are still confused why nostr DEPENDS on bitcoin to be decentralized.
It's not the zaps, it's not spam prevention
Building and running nostr infrastructure has a cost,
Like anything that incurs a cost, the underlying layers of how that cost is settled determine its attributes.
Layer 1: Money
Layer 2: Payment rails
Anything built on top of these layers can be as censorship-resistant as the layers themselves, but not more.
If these layers are not censorship-resistant, anything built on top of them will by necessity also not be.
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