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0 pointsrklaehn11mo ago0 comments

> Shame it's being abused by crypto bros who want to treat it as money.

Iroh contributor here. I don't know what you are referring to. Iroh is just a library to provide direct QUIC connections between devices, even if they are behind a NAT. We don't have any plans doing a blockchain or an ICO or anything like that.

I am not aware of any project called Iroh that is a scam, but if there is, please provide a link here. It's not us.

I know there have been some scammers trying to make a BLAKE3 coin or something, a year ago.

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Imustaskforhelp11mo ago

I actually wasn't referring to iroh but rather ipfs / the stratos thing that I mentioned.

My only gripe with iroh currently is that its browser wasm feels too much for me/ I don't want to learn rust.

So I actually wanted to build something that required connectivity and I used nostr because nostr is great for website and not gonna lie ,its awesome as well (but nostr is also riddled with crypto bros :( )

rklaehnOP11mo ago

OK, thanks for the clarification.

I have nothing against crypto in principle, but I really don't want Iroh to be associated with crypto scams.

Iroh is just a library for p2p connections. You can use it for crypto, but I would say that the majority of our users are non-crypto(currency).

We will try to make the wasm version easier to use, but if nostr works well for you, go for it! Not the right place if you want to avoid crypto bros though :-)

Geee11mo ago

Haven't used Nostr recently, but isn't it associated with bitcoiners rather than crypto bros? At least it used to be that way.

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