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What have been the latest most relevant developments on #Nostr ?

What do you like most?

What have been the latest most relevant developments on #Nostr ?

What do you like most?

Interesting. Still learning, but I think I've done it now?

Who can tell me about Magnetism? Feel like I missing out something eating sunlight, meat and salt.

What are the potential countermeasures or modifications to the Lightning Network protocol that could be implemented to mitigate the risk of a path probing attack, and how would these changes affect the functionality and usability of the network?

Channel Creation: The attacker would need to establish Lightning channels with multiple nodes across the network. The more nodes they are connected to, the more effective the attack. This is because the attack requires the ability to route payments through a variety of paths.

Payment Routing: The attacker would then route small payments through the network, deliberately choosing specific paths. This could be done by specifying the route when creating an HTLC (Hashed TimeLock Contract), which is the mechanism used to make payments in the Lightning Network.

Error Analysis: If a payment fails to route, the Lightning Network protocol returns an error message. Importantly, this error message includes information about where along the route the payment failed. If the payment failure was due to insufficient capacity in a channel (i.e., one of the channels along the route did not have enough balance to forward the payment), this allows the attacker to infer that the balance of that channel is less than the attempted payment amount.

Iterative Probing: By repeatedly attempting to route payments of different amounts through the same channels, and observing where and when these payments fail, the attacker can start to infer the balances of these channels. For example, if a payment of 0.01 BTC fails but a payment of 0.001 BTC succeeds, the attacker can infer that the channel balance is somewhere between those two amounts. This process can be repeated with increasingly fine granularity to learn more about the channel balance.

Balance Estimation: With enough iterations and careful analysis, the attacker may be able to estimate the balances of private channels with reasonable accuracy. This information could potentially be used for other attacks or to gain an unfair advantage in the network.

No, not a troll. To keep cut flowers longer you should cut the ends before putting them in water and add aspirin to the water. These days the florist usually gives you a packet of something similar with the flowers when you buy them.

Damus will never implement delete

Currently educating my work colleagues on #Nostr

Aspirin in the water

How can you make flowers last the longest amouny possible?

what are your tried and proven methods?

#flowertips #asknostr

What do we need to happen for Nostr to be moved more into the realm of acceptance by Mainstream people who are on X and Threads?

I like the idea of the overton window, also known as the window of discourse. If looked at under that lens, one could see how Nostr could possibly fall into the realm of the radical and unthinkable.

If this is the case, what could be done or what might happen to make Nostr more accepted?

Is it an implementation at the protocol level?

Will it happen gradually through normalisation?

Are there external factors that need to be in place?

Is this more of a marketing concern?

Would a social unrest or overreaching censorship on other platforms be one of the only ways to change Nostr's perception by the mainstream?

#grownostr #asknostr #nostr