Sometimes you change your child’s diaper, but occasionally it changes you.

Nicely written, but oof on the tag fail. We’ve all been there! 😆

🚨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

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I, Jimmy Song, attest that this is my Nostr Public Key: #[0]

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While it’s still Friday in some parts of the world, I’ll do my first #FridayFollow for a bunch of fine new Nostriches I met today. 🤙 Good night, make friends and zap sats! 🌙🫂⚡️

#[1] #[2] #[3] #[4] #[5] #[6] #[7] #[8] #[9] #[10] #[11] #[12]

THE NOSTR REPORT

Notificationdrama

Feb 3, 2023

Block Height: 774,912

Moscow Time: 4,282 ⚡/ $

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🎙Quote of the Day🎙️

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#[0] responds to a question about mass surveillance on Nostr by saying, “Nostr is meant for things that you _want_ others to see.”

#[1]

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🚨Headline Nostr News🚨

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#[2] reports that Amethyst was downloaded 36,000 times, with steep trajectory up and to the right. 📈

#[3]

#[4] shows that Damus has 109k AppStore downloads in 3 days. 🤯

#[5]

Nostr network crossed 300k npubs containing profile data 🔥according to #[6]

#[7]

#[8] states “Love the Nostr report. But it ruins my notifications :(“ #[9] We’re sorry for ruining your notifications, but we believe this is a problem that will need to be addressed sooner rather than later as the network grows. Please read our official response here: #[10]

#[11] much like the rest of nostr, in complete disbelief of the Craig Wright 🤡🌎 case.

#[12]

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🏝️Nostrica Update🏝️

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#[13] announces 220 in-person #Nostrica attendees, 400 virtual.

#[15]

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🖥️nostr Tech🖥️

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#[16] laments the current relay experience on nostr and wants to work on a new future where the relay experience is more seamless.

#[17]

#[18] Flashback Will

#[19]

#[20] reminds us to be 🙏 nice 🙏 to the devs as most are working on nostr and fiat mine.

#[21]

#[22] Nostr.band relay experimenting with way to limit global feed to your friends (people you follow) and friends of friends.

#[23]

One of the most Big 🧠 brain conversations ever to happen on nostr between #[24], #[25] and #[26] as they debate if clients should select relays for users and if users should write to 2-3 relays or write to all their relays. All to help improve the nostr network.

#[27]

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⚡nostr Business⚡

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#[28] shares his opinion that the Ordinals conversation is FUD from shitcoiners to get plebs to sell #bitcoin. Ordinals would only be a problem if miners colluded, countermeasures by users and honest miners would combat this.

#[30]

#[31] Nostr Plebs suspends accounts due to impersonation. Today suspends first account impersonating a company after being contacted by the actual company. Company inquired how to setup NIP-05 ID on their own domain.

#[32]

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🎩nostr Lifestyle🎩

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#[33] Relays having fun

#[34]

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🩺Nostr Health of the Network🩺

Pubkeys 471,480

Events 1,164,417

Relays 280

Source nostr.io/stats

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🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥

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#[35] End of 2023…

#[36]

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Stay Classy Nostr.

We had our first company contact us regarding ID impersonation at Nostr Plebs. After verifying the information received, the account in question was suspended. The company then asked us how to setup their own NIP-05 ID on their own domain. 👀 They're coming.

#[2] complaint department.

Hah. Crushing it man! Dad life is a good one but demanding. Enjoy some R and R.

"Fiat mine" makes me smirk everytime. 😏

While this is a growing and non-exclusive list, here are some of my favorite nostriches that I think you should be following if you aren't already (really hoping i get this tagging right 🤞):

#[0] - if you have nostr FOMO like me then youll need the daily report.

#[1] - because he could probably teach Bitcoin to a rock. He may have already done so.

#[2] & #[3] - because they are dope, bleeding heart bitcoiners and build cool shit.

#[4] - a phenomal "relay" of information.

#[5] & #[6] - becuase theyre legends and for updates on leading iOS and Android client development.

This is very much a short list. But feel free to tell me who I am foolish for not including 🤘💜

I wish we could locally store who we follow on the client side.