[ NIP Proposal 80085 ]

Hello, I hope you are doing well. Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to allow me to explain in greater detail. Why the Nostr protocol is currently a honeypot for criminals and tax collectors.

The Nostr protcol is revolutionary in its ability to almost resist online censorship completely. As well as having the capability to transfer a valuable digital currency asset known as Bitcoin instantly via zaps on the lightning network. When you connect your lightning wallet to nostr. Enabling you to earn an stable income in many ways. Such as content creation appreciation for your Nostr posts.

When zaps are made, depending on your chosen software application you are using. It is a common feature shows bitcoin zapped for any given post. Which allows everyone to publically gauge the posts popularity by listing the total amount of satoshis zapped.

For the vast majority of the Nostr community this is a dire personal privacy and security threat. Not a feature. Which has yet to be acknowledged, addressed, and resolved.

First in order to gain a much more comprehensive understanding of this critical flaw in the nostr protocol. We must first understand the human psychology from a behavioral science perspective. So that everyone can fully understand how zap motiviation and actions take place every day here on Nostr.

Whenever a primate sees another primate doing something perceived as beneficial that that the rest of the group has started doing. Then they themselves may instinctively start to feel the desire to join in. So that way they are actively participating in the social group and its native customs. So as not to feel left out, or be exiled.

Now while you may be saying to yourself so what?

Monkey see, monkey do, more zaps for me, and more zaps for you am I right?

Now think about another primate behavior that is inherent in many of us without a moral compass. For if anyone has seen a nature documentary, or been to the monkey exihibit at the zoo. What happens when one monkey wants something badly enough that they don't already have? They will be tempted into steal it for themselves.

Now that we have established a few basic concepts of behavioral psychology. Let us think about this from an airplane altitude view in relation to the way the Nostr protocol is currently being implemented.

Here are several very important personal and business questions for you to now ask yourself. Regarding basic privacy and security of finances.

Would you ever publicly post your private bank account balance on the internet for everyone to see?

Would a private individually owned small business ever post their bank account balance on the internet for everyone to see?

Lets say a person who is very popular on Nostr continues to stack sats at an exponential rate over time. If one of their jealous followers has fallen to temptation to steal their Bitcoin, because they always see them getting 5-6 digit zaps. Would it be easy for them to calculate a bare minimum bitcoin balance that any popular Nostr user earns in any given week?

Most bitcoiners publically admit that they are never fucking selling. So then could a determined enough criminal gracefully go through any popular nostr community member's entire post history with AI. In order to calculate a rough estimate of their potential current bitcoin life savings earned through nostr zaps?

If a criminal were able to easily acquire this level of knowledge through a very basic investigation. Using readily available tools. Would that person now have enough financial motivation to steal from any popular Nostr community member online? So that they can actively compromise computer devices to gain access to popular lightning wallets. Then steal all of their funds by zapping them into their own possession.

If any popular Nostr community member who is targeted for theft is smart. They may also publically advocate for cold storage. Should those smart people unwittingly post personal information about their home location. Could not a skilled enough investigator deduce their exact location through observation of their local landmarks in photos, or simply by determining their IP address whenever they visit a website domain posted on Nostr controlled by the criminal?

Could a legal licensed tax auditor also deduce these possibilities simply from their basic accounting and investigative training. Then use this publically verifiable evidence against you in a court of law. In a tax audit to legally steal your bitcoin away from you?

If these questions and answers are scaring the ever living shit out of you now. Good, that means you are paying attention. Now realize how screwed everyone who does not solely do anonymous zaps right now is.

Now that we know how big of a risk zaps are in their current condition for the Nostr protocol. How do we retain the behavioral science powered satisfaction for public accumulating of zaps. Without exposing any nostr users to any potential dangers from this big privacy and security design flaw in the Nostr protocol?

While each developer can tackle this problem with solutions in their own unique way. As a community we should make privacy and security a vital focus in protocol implementation via a new NIP which I am naming NIP 80085. For obvious memetic purposes to get everyone's attention.

Nostr developers please note that these are very purposefully dumbed down non functional examples. So that any Nostr user reading this nip proposal, regardless of their software development knowledge. Can easily get the general idea of how to fix this very critical issue we all now face as a protocol gracefully.

Solution A: Allow any Nostr user to assign their own unique emojis corresponding to customizable preset zapped amounts for any given Nostr post they make.

Example A:

0-100 satoshis zapped = Kiss emoji

101-1,000 satoshis zapped = Astonished Face emoji

1,001-100,000 satoshis zapped = Mind Blown emoji

Solution B: Color coded custimizable icons that lets followers know how popular their post is. Based on the current network wide zap averages accumulated for all content posted on Nostr within the past 24 hours.

Example B:

Red Icon = High Post Zap Average Score

Green Icon = Medium Post Zap Average Score

Blue Icon = Low Post Zap Average Score

Solution C: Simple text based notification that lets nostr users know how popular their post is. Inspired by a zap themed weather status. Which is also based on the current network wide zap averages accumulated for all content posted on Nostr within the past 24 hours.

Example C:

Zap Hurricane = High Post Zap Average Score

Zap Tornado = Medium Post Zap Average Score

Zap Shower = Low Post Zap Average Score

It is in my professional scientific opinion that any one of this simple solutions would satisfy our primate groupthink mentality. Which we are all hardwired to do here via zaps right now. Without giving anyone enough definitive publically verifiable financial information.

Each solution has pros and cons like many things in life. This will require a less busy mind to physically design and implement NIP 80085. As I am currently busy producing multiple projects at this time. I will not be posting the NIP 80085 proposal on GitHub. For ethical and moral reasons related to company ownership.

It will require Nostr hero developers who now believe passionately in NIP proposal 80085. Please take my propsal and format it into a official NIP submission on GitHub. Then complete the work I have started for you.

This is not my first rodeo when it comes to providing innovative solutions. While pointing out the elephants in the room that most people never see. I believe this is a good starting point for a public discussion on how to address this dire situation we are in as a protocol. The vast majority of Nostr users now have to face this harsh reality now, or face the consequences later.

I am a firm believer in FOSS. Financial privacy and security should be a universal right by Nostr protocol design. This should be the absolute bare minimum responsibility all developers must account for. To safely protect all of their Nostr community members. As we ensure that all of us maintain true censorship resistance and financial freedom for everyone on Nostr.

No one should have to move into a jail cell for a tax related conviction from using Nostr. As well as robbed if someone tracks you down in your new mansion in a few years. Just as soon as Bitcoin hits 10M USD per 1BTC. To make theft, and/or murder become a calculated risk for any professional criminal heist.

I genuinely help people. I want you all to be safe and become aware of this very real and present danger. Don't panic. Have courage to save Nostr. Motivate Nostr developers to help themselves by designing and implementing NIP 80085. Fix this critical flaw in the Nostr protocol together now.

GN Nostr.

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1. There is a high likelihood that COVID *was* a lab leak.

2. There is *overwhelming* evidence of that Russia helped Trump win in 2016.

His confident and swift ignorance should raise alarm bells for any person who calls themselves an independent thinker.

I am confused. Do you all want me to shut up about the nip 80885 proposal, or keep trying to save nostr?

Getting mixed signals here folks....

Ya know, there could be good things if fiat wins... The Dark Ages had cloaks. And daggers! We could bring back cloaks in the next Dark Age 🤔

An important thing to note here is that mRNA induced damage to heart tissue can be sub-clinical. Many people won’t realize they have (near permanent) scar tissue in their heart until they exert themselves beyond some threshold. nostr:note1lsfm3mswl50lr0dwnjf9qc9ht3sr4f735w6hvkj6a9scmjk442tqc7epur

Agree about Pool -- never saw the draw, personally.

No it wouldn’t, dipshit. I already personally investigated the situation. Watched the video evidence. Looked at the 3D printed by Chainmanwon firearm lower the shooter used, etc to form my opinion. If found guilty, hopefully he gets the death penalty!

Why would anyone give money to someone from a super rich family and who will most likely ultimately get the death penalty? A 1st degree murderer who shoots someone he disagrees with in the back. Scum of the earth.

Speed of transactions absolutely needs to be fixed. What the technology wants and what the user wants are two very different things. Hour long settling times are absolutely fine for bill payments but not great for getting groceries (unless you open a tab I guess)

The problem will hopefully get worse with space colonization. I have been wracking my brain for a system of payment that is location invariant. I think it can be done but it won't be quite as trustless as Bitcoin.

speed of transactions does not need to be fixed

10 minutes and the latency of the global internet are a perfect match and lightning state channels (two way transactions that can be securely updated to match a flow of sats in either direction) solve the latency problem, they just bring with them the problem of the brittleness of a source routed network system where a transaction path may not work between when the state of the network was acquired and when a vital hop in the path became congested or went offline

solving these issues can be done other ways, and i have pondered a lot the idea of atomic multipath redundant pathfinding, so transactions literally travel light lightning bolts across the paths that are open and the first one that reaches the end settles it, instead of the standard single path or atomic multipath (AMP) patterns where only one failure in all of the hops in the path causes a failure

AMP only makes bigger payments possible, it did not add redundancy

Strategic #Bitcoin reserves by nations are great for adoption, “number go up” incentivises interest. But my main focus remains on inspiring individuals to adopt Bitcoin for their own financial sovereignty, security, and stability. Empowered individuals are the bedrock of a flourishing civilisation.

yeah, not enough people understand the cryptography, so shysters get to rule the day

yes, i favor reducing the blocksize and abolishing segwit also, and making all signatures schnorr "taproot" signatures oh yes and deprecate op_return permanently

Let's activate Drivechain and reduce the blocksize to 300kb!

man, trying to find this video, thet bulgarian government mandated they throw a "you are not alone, suicide is not the answer" message for "suicidal tendencies" song "join the army"

🤦‍♂️ seriously, this internet is so fucked up