Value 4 Value essentially means you paying for the value that your'e getting out of something. If your'e providing me with good content, maybe I'll send you some sats. I win because I get the content. You win because you get the sats. We both get value out of our transaction.

**Today was an extremely active day on Nostr**

And the best part? It was all because of two tiny events.

* Damus added NIP-05 ID display in their app

* Damus cleared slots for about 700 new TestFlight users

These events revealed several major takeaways:

The Nostr FOMO is real. No matter what your friends say, no matter what naysayers on Twitter post, today was evident that people *care about Nostr*. They are experiencing FOMO and they are experiencing it bad.

Nostr was so active today that one popular Relay was pushing over 100mbit/sec of traffic. That's one relay and it's just text - no videos or images.

This type of traffic isn't sustainable for the average Relay operator. Soon, Nostr will have to switch to Value 4 Value models to help Relay operators pay their bills. They can only survive on donations and the goodness of their own hearts for so long.

If this is what Nostr was like today, can you imagine what it's going to be like when Damus gets approved on the Apple App Store?

What about when an Android client finally hits the Google Play Store?

Keep building.

I just puchased something with Muun and the fees were about 854sats. I have no idea where this sits in the cheap-expensive field of fees, but I find it negligable (it's about 5 cents?)

the entire internet works this way

however the relay owner decides it. think of it as digital private property

Subscribers like Reddit. Relay owner is “mod”.

As long as your followers don’t send your events to other relays (they can).

Further, as an incentive to moderate and keep spam free, one could pay Sats to the moderator to be part of their whitelist.

yes, you have your own local slice of the protocol.

another option is to run your own relay and only allow those "select number of people" on your relay's whitelist. then messages you publish there are only available to those people. otherwise, it's hard to imagine how a non-account-based approach could work in this context.

I wonder if it would make sense to make the first post short (as a hook like what twitter does) and then the next post can be long. This is already supported by Nostr, but I'm just saying from usability/eye-catcher perspective.

I keep seeing more and more friends from Bitcoin Twitter coming over here. It's great. The FOMO is real too. Some of these folks showing up were very adamant about not wanting to use nostr just a week ago. I guess that means it's time to dig up some of those guides and repost'em.