I think the best way to describe Jason Lowery’s misunderstanding is that he doesn’t know the map from the territory. He looked at the map, got really excited about it, and decided it was the territory and then wrote a thesis on this.
Bitcoin is not just merely the “heaviest chain” rule. Bitcoin is an agreement by millions of people that having a common way to exchange value apart from government or corporations is fundamentally useful.
You can’t destroy this with nonces.
Do you have any paid relays? Your content would not load for me until I followed you.
I have not gotten around to figuring out all this where and how to pay
You need a paid (meaning: pay-to-write) relay for others to easily see you. The small payment acts as a spam filter.
Most users (myself included) ignore content on free relays unless we explicitly follow the person first.
Relays are listed on: https://relay.exchange
If you want a recommendation, nostr.wine is good because it comes with two relays, the second being an aggregator and filter of popular free relays to kill the spam. The nostr.land relays are also very popular.
You'll need some sats in a Lightning wallet to pay.
You can add as many paid relays as you like without paying (pay to write; free to read). So pay for 1 or 2, but add 8 to 10, and remove all of the free relays from your client.
That will get you into the “real” nostr. A bit of friction to set up, but very worth it once inside. Huge signal with very little noise. I think you will see a lot of engagement, probably more than on Twitter.
Is there a quick way to explain how to pay like where do I get the invoice?
Never mind just had to click through in the right browser. Some brothers don’t bring up the wss.
Visit e.g. https://nostr.wine (or any of the others on https://relay.exchange ), put your npub in, hit pay, pay it as usual, then add the relay from your client.
Yeah that easy
awesome thanks
Relays sorted, back on topic: are you planning to read the thesis?
I asked him a question on Twitter a month ago and he blocked me. For all of his interviews and talks, he never seemed to be able to land a real concrete point, just generic / abstract concepts.
I am curious to know what exactly he means by the “world computer”, but *very* skeptical that he means anything new or interesting.
Given how long it is and how many other things I would like to read first it’s probably not going to happen unless I hear from someone that there are intelligent points to refute.
