I really really like nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s . His family, his humor, his skills and brilliance…
I preface with this to say, i believe this is premature and even naive. I don’t believe people have any idea what’s coming. We can win. But the work has barely even started. Bitcoin and nostr are just the first two blows which actually landed. nostr:note127j32mpcys46m7h9nvcxfml0pwz47lh86qe9n6uwmntak0876w5s50va24
Its maybe more accurate to say we got shiny new weapons for the battle ahead
Im polishing mine as we speak with movie music in the background.
I only read the first sentence and retweeted and smashed the like button 🥲
speedy fox 🦊
Do you have an idea of what is coming or can you offer a prediction?
Imagine a full sanction from the US government. Microsoft and GitLab takes down all Nostr related repos. Apple/Google pull client apps from their stores. Relays hosted in "14+ eyes" countries forced to shutdown.
We didn't think the US or allies would target Tornado Cash like it did. The way that developer was arrested for writing code should be a wake up call to everyone.
I can run a relay from my house (I do) and make it look like it's anywhere else in the world (I do).
They can't do shit and I dare them to try.
What does it actually take to run a relay? I mean space, domain, maintenance time, etc?
I already had a server but that's probably the biggest thing to figure out.
Space is 62MB because I'm only storing my data. Maintenance was 10 mins to spin up the container, 10 mins to configure it to only allow my NIP-05 domain. I have a script on my proxy server to set up TLS and a reverse proxy. I haven't touched it since.
can't answer this and neither can nostr:npub13wfgha67mdxall3gqp2hlln7tc4s03w4zqhe05v4t7fptpvnsgqs0z4fun !
You could run a relay on a RasPi if you wanted. It just needs a basic webserver (nginx, caddy, apache) and a domain with SSL cert installed so connections over websocket secure (WSS) can be made.
Disk space and resources can depend on a couple factors including the lang that it was written in and the database. I’ve found the relay written in Rust with SQLite to be more performant and low-resource consumption than one written in Typescript and using Postgres.
And then it also depends on the type of NIPs the relay allows, which will dictate the sort of content stored on the relay. Also factor in number of connections using the relay, if it’s mirroring another relay, and/or if it supports hosted media like NIP-95.
"oh is that all?" 😉
I appreciate the detailed answer.
How about every relay also hosts a repo mirror
Just set up a migration on my git server. Can't stop the signal.
Oh gosh. I dont see that well!
I just know that every 500 years or so, a major technology emerges which completely upends the establishment power bases. The last one was the printing press. This one is TCP/IP.
These changes move as change waves through culture. From philosophers, to artists, to entrepreneurs, to big business, to government, to bureaucracy. in that order,
up ending power bases as it moves.
What happened to the music industry because of the internet effect, is now happening to government.
If we look at how far empire went to stop the printing press effect, we have some idea of how far this iteration of empire will go.
wherever there is a centralization choke point, is where you will find empire attempting to exclude the people. bitcoin handles money. nostr handles internet routing. linux/bsd handles OS platform.
we still have internet itself at the ISP level, internet search, hardware, localized food production, localized energy production, local supply chains… you get the idea. there is much work to be done.
Agreed, btc & nostr are the first blows.
Now we have to fix everything fiat broke without collapsing everything in the shifting phase
