Any other node-runners who just opt for bare-linux instead of umbrel or start9?
M V = P T
Where
M = the total supply of money
V = the velocity of money (how often money moves hand)
P = the average price level
T = volume of transactions of goods and services
This is the equation of exchange
The censorship resistance of bitcoin is overrated.
An ISP can easily censor me from using bitcoin.
This is even more true in countries where VPN's are illegal and the most popular VPN's are operated by the government
Belgian regulator orders binance to cease all offers of virtual currency services in Belgium immediately.
The footnote is pretty interesting.
The FSMA wishes to recall that the activity of provider of exchange services between virtual currencies and legal currencies and of custody wallet services (VASP) remains an unregulated activity, except as concerns combating money laundering and terrorist financing (AML/TF).
Cycling zaps is easier than buying likes.
When you cycle zaps you send from a fake account to yourself and back. Repeat this procedure and get an artificially high zap count.
Faking likes requires a large number of accounts. On traditional social media acquiring a large number of accounts is a bit less trivial.
Can #nostr fix surveillance?
Maybe it is a design problem.
Servers shouldn't decide what content you can access.
Migrating on mastodon is messy because you cannot keep your handle.
#nostr fixes this.
My relays cannot ban me from seeing others people content
To any nostridge who believes we get better content by a pay-to-publish mechanism.
Please check the ads in your twitter feed?
Let's hope democracies don't set the precedent here
Are there any Nostr indexers that I can use to query content like.
I would imagine a twitter like search mechanism would be great
I would love to have a system of topic based relays.
I want to be able to find people with the same obscure hobbies as I have in nostr.
If BRC-20 wasn't taking up so much chain-space nobody would be talking about it
Fortune favours the cyberpunk.
https://mempool.space/address/1LuckyUU8SuuB3cdLC21tirduUBcNJXVR
Nostr is still small.
Current user-base is mostly bitcoiners discussing bitcoin.
People tend to be nicer if they agree on what they are talking about
The opsec of my #nostr keys is terrible. I put the secret key in a client on each device I have. If any of these devices is compromised my #nostr-account is gone.
Are there any proposals to improve the situation?
One proposal could be to generate a private key per device. These keys could be retracted by the master-key.
Do you have any Android client recommendations?
I cannot find the option in Amethyst.
I've seen the global feed on Snort.social
Can I get it on Amethyst or another Android client?
What is the best way to discover content on Nostr?