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Polymarket is quite certain it'll go above 70k

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SunshineAndRainbows

When does Phoenix get their act together and enable zaps?

Is Phoenix even on Nostr?

#phoenix

#asknostr

7063h 1y ago 💬 1

Any news?

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Gigi

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L.N. Tolstoy, author of "Anna Karenina"

#nostrbookclub

Something intrigued me to join #nostr. It was #Bitcoin and #Lightning integration. So I tried to set up my wallet here. First with Wallet of Satoshi, then with Primal. I somehow didn't like that I couldn't easily choose my own username for the address. I guess, simplicity and abstraction costs. I will further educate myself to try the self-custodial Lightning ⚡ options.

On Amethyst, where are all my Private Bookmarks stored? Would they come with me, were I to change a client?

#asknostr

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Someone, please, explain. As I understand there are paid relays (examples welcome), which may provide better features (examples welcome).

Do I also understand correctly that there exist Proof-of-Work type relays, where in order to post a note one must solve math equations at a certain PoW difficulty level?

#asknostr

Ok, I'm reading NIP-13 Proof of Work: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/13.md

7063h 1y ago 💬 1

Someone, please, explain. As I understand there are paid relays (examples welcome), which may provide better features (examples welcome).

Do I also understand correctly that there exist Proof-of-Work type relays, where in order to post a note one must solve math equations at a certain PoW difficulty level?

#asknostr

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shep21

I actually find this as good news. With Italy's increased tax rate on capital gains, holding or using #Bitcoin becomes a more viable option compared to converting it to fiat money. Which is great news in my opinion.

Italy raising tax rate on capital gains from BTC is a good thing. This encourages people not to convert their BTC back to fiat and motivates actual use of BTC.

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See my #welcome guide for the best practices for a newcomer: https://habla.news/tony/welcome-to-nostr

It is a NIP, but I can’t remember which one.

You need a #Lightning wallet. Lightning is a second layer protocol on top of #Bitcoin.

As I believe you’re new to this, I’d suggest something simple like nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq to start with. It can be topped up with onchain (regular) #bitcoin, funds will be converted to sats on lightning network. Later if you want to withdraw back onchain, you can do it by simply sending sats to you bitcoin address.

You can connect the wallet in the settings of your Nostr client (app). This will allow you to send and receive #zaps directly to your wallet via Nostr.

7063h 1y ago 💬 1

You are very helpful! Thank you!

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https://habla.news/tony/productivity

Well, relays are one of the pillars of Nostr. Clients (or what most people call “apps”) are another part of it.

But you’re generally right. You can have a private relay that only stores your notes as a backup and does not rebroadcast anything. You can have a read-only relay that fetches info from rss feeds or Mastodon or other sources outside of Nostr and broadcasts it to Nostr users. There are many more options, virtually limited by your imagination only.

And yes, there are tons of “Apps” out there.

The main thing to realize is Nostr is a communications protocol, not an app. It can be used to exchange any kind of information.

I’ve written a series of posts called “A Million Tiny Worlds”. I urge you to have a look.

https://habla.news/tony/multimedia

https://habla.news/tony/stats-and-data

Thank you, I will. Maybe a last question. I see the zap economy here, I am still trying to learn how it was developed and integrated within the Nostr protocol. Is it a NIP-X? Do I automatically have a wallet associated with my keys? Let's say I have some BTC on my Bitcoin Wallet - how can I transfer some of it from there to here?

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> I was actually afraid my note wouldn't be broadcast.

You’re actually pretty well connected 👍

> So, any relay in a way simply passes and (temporarily) stores messages?

Yep. You can setup your relay to do different kinds of things, but basically yes, the original purpose is to fetch notes and allow other users to see them.

Cool! With regards to `other things`: this is where one could set up a paid relay with advanced filtering, or even build an app which doesn't resemble Twitter/X but allows for other use cases such as voting, version control, prediction markets, etc.?

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Gigi

Saying the right thing to the right person at the right time can make all the difference.

The right neuron broadcasting the right signal at the right time can lead to the greatest ideas.

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Not really. Here’s my take:

A quote from the post states:

“As the number of users has now climbed into the millions, system designers have resorted to the use of supernodes”.

So the problem with superpeers is that they are introduced by the protocol designers, often within a single ecosystem. There is little to no chance for a regular user to spin one up.

Let’s take a look at #bitcoin p2p trading as an example. You’ve got several platforms to trade, such as Hodl Hodl and Bisq. They facilitate coordination and help you find a peer to trade with. These are centralized.

Then you’ve got truly decentralized p2p platforms. Like nostr:npub1exv22uulqnmlluszc4yk92jhs2e5ajcs6mu3t00a6avzjcalj9csm7d828 chat. But Simplex does not provide discoverability: you’ve got to connect to a peer first to be able to chat.

When we talk about social media, we assume discoverability - being able to broadcast, and get access to posts from users we didn’t connect to (yet).

Until #Nostr came to life this could only be achieved via the increasingly centralized coordinators.

With Nostr users now can connect to any relay of any size or even spin up own relay at near zero cost. Moreover, users can connect to multiple relays, ensuring redundancy.

While we do see more users flock to some popular relays like Damus, Snort or Primal, they don’t have to and can be connected to smaller ones and still be discoverable.

Bottom line is: The fight for decentralization and censorship resistance is never ending, and Nostr is the best chance to win this fight at the moment.

Thanks for elaborating! I was actually afraid my note wouldn't be broadcast. So, any relay in a way simply passes and (temporarily) stores messages? Like a synapse in a brain?

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🌊

10th year bankless. Bitcoin only. AMA.

https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/natures-many-attempts-to-evolve-a

How do you pay for services? For example, hosting, VPN, home utilities?

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fiatjaf

Superpeers were discussed in the article. Would superrelays have the same centralization issues?

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Melvin Carvalho

If you had a bot on nostr, would you want it linked to your account or not linked to your account. And how to do it. Turns out this is one of the trickiest questions in distributed computer science. Quite hard to figure out at first, but once you see the answer, you can solve almost any problem of this kind.