Oddbean new post about login | logout All good. Cool to see this. Like the micropayment concept too. Code from codepayments.org might also be an interesting way to support unlocking content in the future. Solana permissionless payment protocol worth exploring maybe.
nostr mainly focuses on bitcoin because everything else is too scammy and not really decentralized. Most of these projects like code and solana are run by small teams designed to make a profit off of bitcoin’s success and are not serious long term solutions. Noone is going to have multiple different wallets with different coins when transacting online. bitcoin is the only serious project attempting to build a global currency and money. Damus is bitcoin only for this purpose and will always be.
Fair point. I’m also skeptical as well but have seen being used with its slick UX which makes their onboarding process easy. Some wallets make bitcoin easy but we need more.
Solana is centralized and therefore by definition not permissionless
Good perspective. But it is the fastest.
Bitcoin lightning transactions comfirm in under a second on direct channels, and is much more scalable because you can have thousands of transactions happening per second on many different channels. The tps throughput effectively scales as large as the number of economically active channels, which has no upper limit. Solanas throughput can never match lightning, but it doesn’t even matter because it’s centralized.
Uncle Rico can throw a football over them mountains but he’s never gonna win a Super Bowl.
