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With custodial lightning, your activity is private between you and the custodian. There's a relationship where they know of you, maybe your email address and they know your balance and transaction history.

They could use that to determine who to service, and who to ban/block/deny.

With ecash, there are no user accounts, just tokens. When you make a payment via lightning, they know that SOMEONE has 100 sats of ecash that they are liable (as an example), that the 100 sats owner wants to pay a 100 sats Invoice, but they don't know who you are, how many sats you have left, or what you did in the past. They don't even know when the ecash tokens that you are using were issued.

It's harder to marginalise you. But not impossible, eg if you don't use a VPN, or if they refuse to serve known VPN ip addresses, they can choose to restrict people from a certain location.

The mempools have cleared!!!

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So then just get those relays to gatekeep your data from Jack Dorsey... Whats the problem?

Ah nice. That makes sense since it was a fund raiser.

Oh the paradox. Do you allow a company to keep your metadata and public notes private (which is an oxymoron in itself) or do you keep it all public and fair so there is at least no imbalance of power but now anyone can use your data?

Because the opposite, to have everything private, is not a social or interconnected system and therefore is not useful to its users.

So what is the solution? Tell people not to look? Yeah that'll work.

Human connection

What were they using to get so much hash rate?

I want to play with nostr being the first touch to bitcoin.

There's something powerful in earning your bitcoin or at least getting it without any of the barriers.

Oh, you're talking about markdown syntax. 🤓

# 👀 hello world.

That is amazing.

I usually worry about how people take this and I imagine that they usually would go the other way.. "See it is risky and dodgy money, I don't need that"

Well, I play puzzle games and simple games, I personally don't find first person shooters and online games... The popular stuff... Fun.

Exactly 👍

But also I don't play games, so I assumed people who are into their videogames don't find setting up their operating systems fun and just want to get lost in their games. 😅

For Nostr or maybe Amethyst, I would love to be able to review all of my posts and the relays they are on.

Even if in an abstract way, where it shows a "health" of a post. I am paranoid sometimes that a post or reply I made some time ago never got seen and I ain't gonna remember all the notes I made that day, I am not worried about specific notes, I'm worried about any note being lost because it never got sent to all the relays I'm used to.

This one is tough. Until now, we have never known private on the internet. At best it is pseudo-private, but we get to have privacy from the public in exchange for both losing privacy and giving away control of our account data to some company.

That said, I think it is already being developed, and it will be real privacy, none of this pseudo privacy malarky.

#MLS (I think)

Can be done in #Amethyst already.

Not sure how well it works across platforms though.

Maybe a nip for relays to allow you to subscribe for follows. Then the relay will keep an eye out for changes to follows for your profile and send you a notification as a unique nostr note type. 👀

... Those are what people are enjoying on nostr. That is what is trending... But maybe you mean that you want news, or maybe a feature where you share posts and articles you like outside of nostr and an AI tries to push content similar inside of nostr?

Arch is a barebones distro which can do practically anything.

But then most Linux distributions can do almost anything. I think you can take Ubuntu and put a different desktop environment on it if you wanted.

Once you realise that all Linux disros are just a standard Linux kernel, some drivers and your package manager of choice, and that everything else is just a preconfigured package so you don't need to set EVERYTHING else up from scratch, you realise that all Linux can run everything.

Arch is barebones, and this means there is unlikely to be anything that prevents you from getting what you want installed and functioning, but if your definition of hardware compatibility and compatibility in general means that it isn't just available as a single click on an app store, then you probably aren't looking for a barebones Linux, you're looking for a preconfigured package which is harder to find IMO.

I personally love Arch, it takes work to setup, but you get to understand almost everything about your operating system and the applications installed on it. Documentation is very good too for most things and troubleshooting.

If you want a package based on Arch to get started quicker and not need to learn much, then I think Manjaro is your best bet. But I've never used it since I just created my own lean setup with things I need and none of the things I don't need.