Compared to Bitcoin, Nostr has no single chain of blocks to represent a global state.
Our "nodes" don't pick the longest chain and censor every other alternative.
There are no miners to pick which posts are allowed to go into the chain.
There is no proof of work to create space in the chain.
There is no single core codebase to control any changes to the protocol.
There is just freedom.
The most raw encoding of freedom one can have.
Yeah man, nostr is pretty fucking rad! I would love to see this platform as the popular social media platform within 5 years! It makes many others irrelevant pretty quickly
Que isso Vitor, tô te achando muito libertário kkkk
Nostr doesn't need to maintain consensus for it to be a value. Comparing the two is odd. Bitcoin wouldn't work if it had the same design as Nostr. Freedom is contextual.
Freedom without security is merely chaos.
Nostr has a long way to go. It’s certainly not the “most raw encoding of freedom one can have” and doesn’t come close to being as resilient as bitcoin.
In my teens I probably could’ve knocked most of nostr offline for days with my old botnet lmao it’s literally a handful of nodes. Without a vast network of profitable paid relays and options to switch between, nostr is merely LARPing as “sustainable decentralization” when really it’s a half-built train with no rails. We must build the rails.
Correct. We are optimizing for chaos, not security or resilience. Don't mix things around.
Maybe you, not me ✌️
You can certainly try. Everybody else will make sure this stays chaotic. Because true freedom only comes from chaos.
Freedom from protocols come from the guarantee of order without needing human governance and intervention. This way a system can operate based on a set of pre-established rules, without needing someone in charge.
It executed on the ideal “the rule of law not the rule of men” — it isn’t about chaotic anarchy where anyone can do anything they want. Malleable protocols are not nearly as interoperable between clients as immutable protocols. Permissionless innovation is part of the picture but that’s just the precursor to crystallizing into the final goal, which is an immutable protocol.
It’s sad this truth is being drowned out by the ignorant proclamations from charlatans and shitcoiners who embrace chaos and ignore the need for immutability.
It's working. I use Amethyst follower counts as the backend for the random number generator that powers my online roulette game.
See!! True freedom. Even math fails.
Nostr es más Libre que Bitcoin ⁉️
Nostr has an optional proof of work as well.
