Yes, this is one of my central hopes for BTC. Also, l’m hoping number goes up.
It’s like two physicians. You know, paradoxical.
(For improving current mostly-centralized email.)
nostr:nprofile1qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qyt8wumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetjv4kxz7fwvdhk6tcqyrmj3k0xuuzgxk88pyc0tjnykzthwrvcnnxcdp20ucvwm2wg5wqsvwvmcme is always a good read. He recently reposted this article from 2022 on the death of email, and it has tons of great food for thought for nostr devs.
https://blog.lopp.net/death-of-decentralized-email/
> SMTP needed specific rules for relaying mail and authenticating users to prevent relaying unsolicited email.
> The helpful nature of open relays was among the first victims of the spam influx... The SMTP standard, which was designed with reliability as a key feature, had to be modified to purposefully discard certain messages.
> ISPs started to use crude filters based on keywords, patterns or special characters... these measures were still inaccurate and caused many false positives – emails were filtered or blocked even though they were perfectly fine and actually wanted by recipients.
> The next major development in email deliverability included the standardization of reputation scores... Of course, if you're familiar with how these technologies work then you'll notice that... None of these actually provide email senders with any sovereignty.
> Why wasn’t hashcash widely adopted? One reason was that there was a chicken-and-egg problem for it to work; you’d want almost all email users to nearly simultaneously migrate their email clients and servers to start supporting hashcash, otherwise you’d see massive amounts of legitimate emails get rejected for not including valid hashcash headers.
The solution I think nostr has at its disposal that Lopp doesn't identify (because he's not talking about nostr) is that contact lists are public. Maybe this won't always be the case — private follows actually make a lot of sense, and I think some clients support them.
But as long as transitive follows can be calculated, a web-of-trust score for unsolicited messages (DMs and otherwise) can always be derived. This allows relays and clients to skip the hacky content-based solutions and go straight to an explicit trust score, falling back to payments or proof of work to screen unsolicited messages.
New-style sender-obscured DMs make this harder, since this calculation can't be done without the ability to decrypt user messages. This leaves it up to clients to screen DMs, which can be prohibitive if spam becomes a large problem.
But this relies on an overly-narrow definition of what a "client" is. A client can actually be a server-side component, even a DVM that a user authorizes with a bunker provider in advance to provide screening metadata for DMs. This component can be self-hosted, and trust can be revoked easily.
All that said, I think we can do this, but we've got to keep our eye on the ball. I'm hoping to work on some of these problems this year, starting with basic DVMs for aggregating public data to help clients reduce bandwidth requirements, but I also hope to experiment with trusted relay proxies and privileged DVMs.
I’m hopeful that micropayments will help. It’s not really viable to get 1¢ payments online but small lightning payments are viable. And if spammers and scammers have to pay 10x more to send to a list of 10,000,000 addresses than a list of 1,00,000, that will be a big step.
Hot take: Cashu is not well named for becoming widely used. Lightning is.
Perhaps more significantly, I don’t yet see a non-cringe-named Cashu wallet.
OTOH maybe silly names or appealing to niche audiences is the key to getting off the ground, so what do I know!
Sorry, don’t know who this is. Is she in a position of some power?
I’d like her to learn about hard money, though.
She gives the impression of always preaching her made-up mind. Maybe that's the best way to be senating these days, maybe not, but it does make me wonder what it takes to introduce thoughts to her before she's made up her mind.
Mostly for friends who are not going to not use a custodian. I know plenty of people who will not be getting a hardware wallet any time soon.
Yes, true, but seems a way to not pay Counbase’s higher buy/sell fees. (Though if you hold long enough, the ETF fees will exceed the Coinbase fees.)
#m=image%2Fgif&dim=360x360&blurhash=UNE%7CMUhyyZYR%7Epwa%3FZx%5Bvwxt-o%25LK%2Cr%3FtTtS&x=0a1a730eeeab54986a72b7f9551e7afad9eb9e6e2e66fa17dd70d70fb3d94d9cYou wish me loss? Mm. Ok. Happy Thursday to you too.
For somebody who will be using a custodian, at this point buying an ETF that uses Coinbase seems better than buying BTC on Coinbase.
#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1080x1551&blurhash=%5E38g%24_o%23Di-%3B0K-%3A%5E*ITo%23xuD%25xuD%2BD*xuxaIUxu_2D%24xuxuD%25%25MNLD%25%25Lo%23IU%252_2D%24%25Mt7D%25%25MxuIAxvt7IUxu-pM%7Bt7ofIVt7xtV%3Ft7WYM%7Bs%3A&x=46d5e860a33f4168a59bb0a7309e9e6a4f2a60d639c7a1867248bf9b83849368I'm not sure important notices like this should be expected to be released on one social media. The announcement will probably come today at close of market, and I wonder if it won't be announced via many forms or media at once.
It also seems rather craptastic that the Elon Funky Odor doesn't allow best security practices for all accounts.
Why is this place devoid of posts about bitcoin miners?
CleanSpark, Iris Energy, Marathon
#CLSK
#IREN
#MARA
New year, new default zap amount.
’24 sats
Hey, a social media that benefits the users sounds great, I said to myself. I hopped on and learned a lot about the smart things going into this platform. And as the year winds down I’m seeing posts about importance of Nostr. So, sure, I concur. But I’m not seeing posts about how to increase adoption. Maybe people want it to stay niche. But if not, here are some ideas. You may not like these or you may not agree, and that’s fine, but I do not see much discussion about why adoption has not gone up like you want it to, so I hope this helps.
Better name than the first 5 letters of nostril
Better design
Better UI
Better UX
Better sign up
Better sign in
Less time making new users figure stuff out
And don't make users select between a list of seemingly random relays with weird names
Choose one:
a - This social media network sees relatively flat user count during the year 2024
b - This social media network adopts a new name
You can only choose one.
On a YouTube ad just a few minutes ago, I saw Michael Saylor say he is raffling off 5,000 BTC and 1,000,000 ETH. Just send BTC to the address at this QR code! I was doing some other stuff at the time, so I only realized it was almost certainly a scam after I stopped seeing the very realistic video intro but continued to hear the audio. Very realistic. I can't imagine how it's not a scam. But then again, I can't imagine how it could be so easy to run scams through Google ads. A massive indictment of shame on Google, is my current conclusion.
Iris Energy shares are up today. If I want to see chatter about that here, what works?
#IREN
$IREN
Or just searching for “IREN” or “Iris Energy”?
In any case, seems worry over shares being diluted has been replaced with confidence they will not.
(Share dilution. It’s like inflation but often worse and highly capricious and it sure seems like theft in the way Jeff Booth uses that word.)