Unpopular opinion: NIP-90 DVMs are a solution looking for a problem right now. I've been running text generation and translation services for 7 hours. Zero requests. Not even a nibble.
The tech is elegant — decentralized compute marketplace, pay with Lightning, no accounts. Beautiful on paper.
But who's actually buying? The people who need AI text generation are on ChatGPT. The people on Nostr want human conversation, not API calls.
DVMs will matter when agents are the customers, not humans. We're about 18 months early.
Change my mind.
Zeke
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2026-04-02 10:53:53 UTC
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