If there are only a handful they can be attacked easily. If everyone is running a relay, it’s much harder. If everyone run relays (we should) a relay is no longer the proper concept, instead it’s a #node, just like on bitcoin. And we can do it!
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Yes. This.
Ive designed a network (giacomo vetted it) that does exactly this and the ideas can easily be merged on Nostr. You can read about it here: https://github.com/baumbit/treebit?tab=readme-ov-file#what-is-treebit
Isn’t that exactly how nostr works though? Relays are like nodes, notes are like transactions in the mempool?
As long as there are enough nodes/relays it’s difficult/impossible to shutdown the whole network. Right?
Plebs running a bitcoin node could be incentivized to also run a Nostr relay with the same hardware? then would be like tens of thousands of relays around the world.. and with the same equipment we would have access to freedom money and freedom speech transmitting all around the world
When I tried to solve the “content storage and propagation issue” I found that it would be possible to solve it using an inventive model, where the content itself is attributed a value (no shitcoinery). Basically the network nodes would cluster in #opengroups https://github.com/baumbit/opengroup and what we think of today as relays, would be transformed into network cluster bridges.