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Laser on Nostr: Is nostrich a honey pot? 🍯 A marketplace needs buyers and sellers trusting each ...

Is a honey pot? 🍯

A marketplace needs buyers and sellers trusting each other enough to transact, and pseudonymity with #Bitcoin is the trust mechanism that makes that pitch work.

But if the operator can see participant's real Google email, then the marketplace isn't a peer-to-peer exchange between strangers. It's a platform where one party knows exactly who everyone is, which is the Facebook model wearing a #Nostr costume.

The Bitcoin and pseudonymity language is what gets libertarian-leaning users in the door. The email graph is what makes the business valuable to whoever's actually paying for it.
Does deny that Pomegranate Google Login implementation allows them to mine #Nostr social activity by Google emails?