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 How do you think Nostr can improve payments? Are you thinking along the lines of NWC and adding a ID/messaging layer to Lightning payments? 
 Basically, I don’t see why I would use any new wallet that doesn’t have a social graph of some sort attached to it. Nostr happens to be a great open source social graph.

If I can’t look up people from within the wallet and pay them, then that adds friction. Payments and social inherently work well together, even if I was not interested in actively posting on social media per se. 
  I hope to see Nostr integrated into gaming soon. I dont know exactly what that look like but players can actually own their game accounts and transact p2p.  
 I think nostr would work great for chess-by-mail type games, as well as for server browsers/matchmaking. 
 this is the thing that shitcoins can't win

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 The social graph is a really cool element but I think you’ll enjoy this talk from a recent Nostrasia if you haven’t already - seems like it will also enable crazy use cases impossible on fiat rails! 

https://youtu.be/8oPdYu5hbVg?si=acHb_hST1hjMblmb