You don’t need to arrest everyone, just a handful of prominent operators. The rest scatter. See coinjoin
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This is true inside one jurisdiction
Let’s see how the Nostr blob adapt to censorship. It will be a lot more interesting than the telegram story
Best case is it happens, and we persist regardless - great marketing. Not sure if nostr will do well just yet, but I hope devs are considering all possible scenarios.
Id flowchart all scenarios and think of ways to safeguard against all - until the protocol is untouchable
The Bitcoin and payment integration will play a role, if we come up with ecash private payment to incentivise Relay provider, this will also strengthen the network dramatically.
This is something traditional media do not have.
Bitcoin is Nostr heartbeat, if the former fail then Nostr will fail too