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You’ve probably seen GreenpeaceUSA's Bitcoin report by now, and my response (if you haven't been blocked).

Here’s six things that every environmentalist, Bitcoin advocate, regulator, policymaker and media representative should know about GreenpeaceUSA.

I've had this information for over a year, but have held back on going public with it until now because there were initially signs that GreenpeaceUSA would be open to engaging with environmentalists within the Bitcoin community.

With them now blocking me from commenting on their tweets, all hope of that has now ended. So here's what I can tell you about GreenpeaceUSA, and their campaign that have not been aired publicly until now, and which may surprise you.

Firstly, some context: I’m a former volunteer environmental campaigner with Greenpeace. I once risked arrest to stand up for causes I believed in, including an anti-GMO campaign against McDonalds which was successful within 6 weeks, and hailed as an example of how creative direct action can yield fast results. One of the differences: we talked to McDonalds (something no one at GreenpeaceUSA is currently doing with the Bitcoin community).

I know a number of people in the environmental movement, and I would like to thank them for their honesty in whistleblowing on a thoroughly misguided campaign from GreenpeaceUSA from start to finish.

1. GreenpeaceUSA’s campaign does NOT have the backing of Greenpeace International. In fact, other branches have asked questions of GreenpeaceUSA’s tactics, and even said that their campaign is damaging the Greenpeace brand, and has resulted in the loss of subscriptions.

2. Within GreenpeaceUSA, there are a growing number of voices of discontent. There is a growing division between some of the younger crypto-neutral or crypto-friendly millennial in their base, and the directorship of GreenpeaceUSA

3. As we know, GreenpeaceUSA did receive a $5Million donation from Ripple’s chair Chris Larsen to run an anti-Bitcoin campaign. What you probably do not know is that within Greenpeace, several staff have questioned whether this is ethical, or in the spirit of an organization that says it relies only on grassroots funding in its sign-up pledge.

4. Some members of EWG and SierraClub, particularly younger members, were not enamoured with their organization’s collusion with GreenpeaceUSA’s “Change the Code” campaign. EWG has not engaged in anti-Bitcoin rhetoric since 6 April ‘23.

5. The head of GreenpeaceUSA’s “Change the Code” campaign has stepped down and is no longer any part of GreenpeaceUSA. At the time of his stepping down he was reported by a source within GreenpeaceUSA to be questioning the wisdom of the campaign.

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I heard that there is an ongoing movement now for people that truly care about decentralization and censorship-resistance to only publish to small relays.

one of the main issues nostr mobile users have, especially in poorer countries, is data consumption.

Most nostr clients connect to a number of relays you configure them to.

A lot of people configure 10, 12, even 15 relays.

Most clients just query for everybody the user follows on every single relay they are connected to.

And, just to be on the safe side and make sure your note is read, a lot of people publish through blastr, publishing to 300 relays.

This means that:

* clients connect to 10, 15 or 20 relays

* fetch EVERYTHING from EVERYONE EVERYWHERE

potentially downloading the same event from every single relay they are connected to.

📬 Outbox model

Some people claim that gossip/outbox model is inefficient because it can lead to MORE WebSocket connections.

Yup. It does.

But it also leads to a MUCH more censorship-resistant network. A network where if someone is banned, the people interested in that person CAN'T EVEN TELL THAT THE PERSON WAS BANNED.

A self-healing system.

AND...

as a byproduct of that, data consumption can radically lower.

Instead of fetching every post from everyone everywhere, clients can be much more intelligent and fetch data only from one or two relays where they know they will find what they are looking for.

"Give me posts from A, B, C" from relay1

"Give me posts from D, E, F" from relay2