Damus to lure in Crypto Twitter with Bitcoin revenue payout option

Decentralized social community Damus teased an upcoming characteristic in its app that may permit customers to earn Satoshi — the smallest fraction of Bitcoin (BTC)  — primarily based on put up engagement on the platform.

In a Twitter put up, the Damus workforce highlighted that there might be a characteristic that permits customers to earn Satoshis within the subsequent model that’s “coming quickly.” The workforce didn’t present any particulars after the announcement.

Coming quickly within the subsequent model… earn sats instantly on posts! This put up earned 118ok sats which is about $40. Fairly neat! pic.twitter.com/dAbWWD4i93

— Damus⚡️ (@damusapp) February 5, 2023

Damus describes itself as a social community managed by customers and doesn’t depend on centralized corporations. The applying is constructed on Nostr, or “Notes and Different Stuff Transmitted by Relays,” which is a decentralized community that permits end-to-end personal messaging. There are not any servers inside its community. As an alternative, the protocol makes use of decentralized relays to distribute messages.

Numerous neighborhood members expressed their pleasure in regards to the new Damus characteristic, with some even going so far as describing Nostr as “the way forward for monetization.”

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has additionally been expressing help for Nostr by offering funds to the builders of the challenge. On Dec. 16, Dorsey mentioned that he donated 14 BTC, which is round $250,000 on the time, to help the event of the decentralized social community.

Cointelegraph reached out to a Damus developer for feedback however didn’t get a response but.

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On Feb. 1, Damus went stay on the Apple App Retailer and have become accessible for obtain for iPhone customers. Following this, Jack Dorsey additionally shared the information by way of his Twitter account and described the replace as a brand new “milestone” for open-source protocols.

The previous Twitter CEO additionally pushed for the creation of a decentralized Twitter different again in Dec. 14. This adopted the discharge of an inside investigation led by Elon Musk that highlighted censorship-related points on Twitter. Dorsey highlighted potential options to the problems like resilience from company or authorities management, leaving the fitting to take away content material to the authors and implementing algorithmic moderation.