Today, Jack personally promoted Damus, and after reading the information on WeChat Moments and Twitter, many people still have some misunderstandings. So this article will talk about the relationship between Damus and the Nostr protocol, the relationship between Jack and the protocol, etc.
First of all, Damus is a front-end based on the Nostr protocol. Simply put, it is a decentralized social protocol. Nostr's account and password are public and private keys generated by an algorithm (similar to blockchain); published content is stored in repeaters, which are run by community members. There can be many repeaters, and content can also exist in multiple repeaters at the same time.
If ordinary users want to publish or view the content of their followers, they need to use the client (webpage or APP, such as Damus released today), which can send content to or read content from the repeater. For example, if a piece of content exists in three repeaters ABC at the same time, the client can obtain the content from the three repeaters. Even if repeater A is closed, the content of B and C is still there.
Since the protocol is completely open, anyone can create a client, so there are many versions of clients available (as shown in the figure below, the first row shows different clients). When a client is closed, users can choose other clients. In this way, the accounts, content storage and dissemination, and clients are all decentralized, forming a decentralized network.
But there is also a problem here, that is, the relayers are operated autonomously by community members, but there are costs in running relays, as they need to store and transmit content. Now there are many people who run relays free of charge to support this concept, but if the user scale expands further, more relays will inevitably be needed, which means more people will need to be incentivized to run relays.
The official has clearly stated that it will not issue coins. I will say it three times. No coins, no coins. We need to build a better incentive system to motivate the operation of relayers. So the idea of airdrops can be put aside. However, from another perspective, the fact that the official does not intend to issue coins does not mean that the community cannot issue coins. It is completely feasible to build a token incentive layer on the upper layer of the protocol and let the community issue coins for you. I just don’t know if anyone wants to do this.
Finally, let’s talk about the relationship between Jack and the project. Jack is not the founder, but he has donated to the Nostr protocol. He is also optimistic about Nostr’s concept and is a deep participant in the Nostr community.
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