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**Tech Giants Will become Nostr Clients**

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Tech giants will become #Nostr clients not because they can, but because they will be forced to. Unfortunately this is not a good prediction; a good prediction says not only what will happen, but also when, and I cannot predict the latter. For decades, tech giants like Facebook and Twitter have been enjoying their monopolies gained from seigniorage. This benefited two generations greatly: the boomers and their children. Out of leisure they happily accepted the product as presented to them. Over time, social media was forced to monetize, and users were herded onto platforms they didn't sign up for. The easiest way to monetize free products to users was by selling the user’s attention to advertisers.

Just like no one bought a laptop without an OS, the OS was considered free of charge when in fact it was bundled with bloatware paid for by advertisers.

So, for the first time, the keepers of massive social media platforms have been taunted with a viable decentralized competitor. Will they pivot to the Nostr protocol? Yes, I think they’ll be forced to. Will they create algorithms to manipulate and profit from users? Of course they will. Will they be able to create elaborate walled gardens to monetize your data? Not anymore. Early nostr users flocked to an idea that liberates us from these giant abusive platforms, and more will follow. We now have the luxury of choice.

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Great #[16] today #[17] #[18] #[19] #[20] #[21] 🔥 🤙

@#[22]

How am I just now finding this 😮

Followed and tipped 🫡

Haha it wasn’t super pleasant. But back to normal craziness around here now

This cements QW’s place as the first nostr influencooor

I love this idea, with so much going on, this js a great way to keep up 👍

You paid my first lightning invoice and were such good vibes for my early experience 💜

🚨NostReports Sunday Oped Special🚨

Many new Nostrich hatchlings know the feeling. You open up whatever client you hear about (astral.ninja, snort.social, nostrgram, etc), you figure out that you have to hit the “Generate Key” button, you somehow save your private keys in a way that would make Satoshi cry, and you stare at a constantly updating global feed from a bunch of usernames you have never heard of. Now what?? That was me, the week before Christmas 2022, what the hell do I do now? That’s when I noticed a guy named @ npub1tvqc82mv8cezhax5r34n4muc2c4pgjz8kaye2smj032nngg52clq0rkrq4 on the global feed who kept using the hashtag #plebchain.

Now, we all bring some Twitter baggage with us to Nostr, and for me, that baggage was not feeling good enough to follow people randomly. Why should I? I’m a nobody, and it’s not like they will ever follow me back. But this was a new platform and a new paradigm, so I put that behind me and I followed Quiet Warrior. To my surprise, he responded to me in the simplest of words - “Followed. #plebchain.” Quiet Warrior FOLLOWED ME BACK! Why would he do that? I have Chungus in my name? Pleb after pleb, I started seeing “Followed. #plebchain.” Over and over again. It was magic.

In one of Quiet Warrior’s first posts, he explained that #plebchain was about the concept of value for value, you follow me, I follow you, and let’s do it before all the big accounts and bots get here. Little did we all know that this simple concept would blossom into a movement.

I reached out to Quiet Warrior to get his take on how this has grown, and here is what he said:

“I was really one of the forgotten plebs on twitter. Our first week on Nostr was like a birds first flight, absolutely liberating. I have never talked to so many like-minded, beautiful people. There is tremendous power in the community. I wanted to secure that. Hence #Plebchain. As it progressed my mind continued absorbing the power that the chain really can provide. Satoshi writes about a peer-to-peer network. What are the peers? Plebchain. In essence the Bitcoin network is built on the plebchain layer 0.”

“I also wanted anyone coming in fresh to Nostr to have a simple way to connect and secure the same experience I was having. Follow for Follow is powerful because when you gain followers you gain a voice. The algos kill our voice.”

As I think about Quiet Warrior’s words, I can’t help think about what #plebchain means to me. It is all about breaking the top down communication network of Twitter, where massive influencers tell you how to think. The plebchain is a hive mind for good ideas to propagate.

Why does Nostr and this plebchain concept resonate so well with Bitcoin? As Robert Breedlove says in his “What is Money” podcast – “In a central bank economy, if prices go up, you don’t know if it’s Jerome Powell’s monetary policy, or real people, expending real resources, to obtain a real asset that cause the price increase. #Bitcoin disentangles signal from noise.”

In a centrally controlled communications protocol, if a message propagates, you don’t know if it’s the twitter algorithm, or its real people, expending real attention, to express a real fact. #Nostr, and specifically the #plebchain, secured with #lightning, disentangles signal from noise.

That is what #plebchain means to me. What does the #plebchain mean to you my fellow plebs?

Written by:

@ npub1pvuugp6fyj6t6yeq9ajzv28p54w07sg6jpxvzuu5yc7qmu9edpkqm2d7a5

Nostriches… I could use your help. My wife just found out that I started #[0] She’s worried that between being a full time physician, working on a healthcare startup, and having a newborn and 3 other kids that I won’t have time for this. She doesn’t realize that I’m not alone at NR, and that we have a ton of support from the Nostr community.

Would you be so kind to just send a couple of sats (5 or 10 would make the point) and maybe a message? I don’t really know how else to demonstrate to her what Nostr is and what it means to me…

defiantjogging12@walletofsatoshi.com

THE NOSTR REPORT

🏇The Relay Race 🏇

28 January 2023

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🎙Quote of the Day🎙️

“You wouldn’t know her she uses a different relay” #[0] #[1]

🚨Headline Nostr News🚨

🚀 #[2] launches Pay-to-Relay service (P2R) with spam blocking. For 5k sats, “Enjoy a *99.99% spam-free relay.” #[3] This sparks a spirited discussion by #[4] over how relay operators will define spam and manage their users. #[5]

🔐 #[6] gives us a recap of his concern over an unauthorized change in his lightning address and concern over private key security #[7]

🤡 #[8] apologizes and promises to change Damus+ logo and name. Nostriches boom with powerful memes and #larrychain #[10] #[11]

🖊️Can we find a middle ground where markdown and client interoperability meet? #[12] seems open to it. #[13]

✍️ #[14] working on integrating Nostr features into SeedSigner. #[15]

🏝️Nostrica Update🏝️

#[16] updates with 150 in-person Nostrica attendees. +10 vs yesterday #[17]

🫂Our sincere condolences to #[18] over the recent loss of his mother. The Nostr community is behind you 🫶 #[19]

🙌Client Updates🙌

Damus update adds QR code for sharing your pub key, and fixes blocking. Support for troublesome markdown links removed. #[20]

#[21] testing 🧵’s?? Followers of NostReport and #[22] breathe a sigh of relief over the thought of nested notes. #[23]

#[24] is matching up to 5MM sats for recently launched Android Nostr client, Amethyst. #[25]

🩺Nostr Health of the Network🩺

• Pubkeys = 359,522 [+4,301 from yesterday]

• Events = 1,546,723 [+50,990 from yesterday]

• Relays = 260 [+2 from yesterday]

🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥

And congrats to #[26] with ANOTHER 🔥 meme #[27]

Stay Classy Nostr.

Paid🤙

I needed this today … I’ve basically been off longer in the last 24 hrs more than every day since 12/22😂

I miss the news and #plebchain

Great job y’all 🤙

If you build it, they will come.

THE NOSTR REPORT

ATTACK OF THE SHITCOINS

27 January 2023

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Our quote of the day comes from #[0] who noted:

“I’m troubled immeasurably by the number of dot eths I’m seeing here (1 so far)”

Headline Nostr News

🚨 Fork Off 🚨

#[1] forks Damus and has the audacity to call it Damus+ and use the same logo as the original without permission. Please know this before you download this app. To learn more about Larry please visit his site larrysalibra.com.

#[2]

🔐 Private Key Security 🔐

#[3] reveals new reason for concern over security of private key in web clients.

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⚡️ Nostr’s Killer Feature ⚡️

#[5] proclaims Lightning to be the hidden killer feature of Nostr

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💥 10K 💥

#[7] reached 10K followers. A first for a Nostr user!

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Nostrica Update

Check out the satellite events on community doc under the tab "side quest agenda".

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#[10] spreading rumors about a Nostr Hackathon!

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Tips & Tricks

Now use nostr.build to upload audio. #[12] gives an example:

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Nostr Heath of the Network 📈

#[14] provides an excellent analysis of the trailing 90 days of Nostr growth.

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• Pubkeys = 359,522 [+4,301 from yesterday]

• Events = 1,546,723 [+50,990 from yesterday]

• Relays = 260 [+2 from yesterday]

🔥 Meme of the Day🔥

Our meme of the day comes in hot from #[16] and perfectly sums things up:

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Stay Classy Nostr.