Grin++ recent development updates and nostr

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@davidtavarez

It bothers me, so to speak, that even most people associate Nostr with social media. From a technical point of view, I don’t see how Nostr could scale in real life to withstand 1 million users, nor why people would want to not have control of their own data by spreading content everywhere with no opportunity to exercise their right to “be forgotten”.

I totally agree about the right to be forgotten, by the way. If we keep speaking up about privacy concerns, it will naturally improve. Just need to guide the zeitgeist in that direction.

1. The cool thing about Nostr is that the user does have control over where their data spreads. Clients will continue to improve in how this is shown and managed by the user. One client I’ve used actually shows each Relay and whether you read or write to it. Clarifying the read/write relationship is helpful imo. Also, running your own relay from a home device could become easier over time as well.

2. I think in the future, users will primarily only post encrypted data. Unencrypted will be rare. Sort of like how most people on Facebook only post “to friends”, but you can post publicly if you so choose.

@davidtavarez

I would say, private enough, one can derive severa pubkeys to increase privacy.

Clients also adding multi-account management (account switching) help with this a ton! So much privacy can be gained from that simple best practice (segmenting your identities).

@davidtavarez

I still not 100% user how to combine Nostr and Grin, but so far the basics are working

It unlocks so many use cases! The venmo product idea needed a messaging system and now it’s here! Also there is a marketplace spec built on Nostr too!

@davidtavarez

It would be very easy to create a paywall for a relay payment using Grin

How do you do it without invoices or payment proofs though?