I should have been taught more about marxism in school

You love Bitcoin?

Make a statement with a hand carved 1/1 relief in natural slate with gold leaf accents.

I completed this piece over the course of three months. It is a physical expression of proof of work and the low time preference ethos of Bitcoin.

Interested? Let’s talk.

Atomic swaps I understand and would be cool to see. I never did understand smart contracts.

Very cool. Sounds like an area for research!

Serious question: Is ‘blockchain’ still a thing?

Or, can we do everything with Bitcoin and Nostr as the base protocols?

#asknostr

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That's an interesting idea. It's effectively an attempt to create a distinction between legitimate identities and potential spammers by adding a "cost" to creating an identity, yet without the need for a centralized authority.

However, I don't know how effective it would be. The PoW would have to be high enough that it imposes a significant cost for spammers to have to spin up a new identity once the one they were using is no longer being seen by most users. Yet, that also means it will be a considerable wait for a new user on standard hardware to generate enough PoW to finally be able to post.

Indeed, a spammer could have his GPU working overnight to have multiple Nostr keys ready to go, so that as one is detected as a spammer, he just uses the next one in line, with the PoW note already having been generated.

I think the cost to the new user would be greater than the imposition caused to a determined spammer. Indeed, the more I look at PoW as a possible spam deterrent, the less it makes sense and really just ends up being a deterrent against new users in general. For it to be effective at deterring spam, it needs to be a high enough amount of PoW that it is an annoyance to average users, too. Especially those posting from mobile devices.

We have the tools with proof of work to mitigate the worst of spam. There is already a NIP to add PoW to notes, but that makes UX for normal use quite degraded. But what if we only had to do it occasionally? Let's say my profile contains a reference to a note on which I included PoW. Clients then could filter out users by which have shown a certain level of PoW, which if set high enough would make these spam attacks unfeasible.

Why does spam exist?

It only exists because the following three things are true:

1. People with malicious intent exist.

2. People can create new Nostr identities for free.

3. New identities can write to relays for free with the expectation that their notes will be seen and may not be removed for a time.

It is not possible to change 1, and 2 cannot be changed without a central authority that issues "approved" Nostr keys. Not a road we want to go down.

That means the only way to fight spam is by improving the ability of relays to block spam from being written to them in the first place and/or recognize and remove it quickly.

It is then the responsibility of users to only read from relays that do so. This means they need to have a place to find such relays. A relay marketplace, of sorts, that they can be referred to or that can be displayed within their Nostr client.

Clients aren't entirely off the hook here either. Defaults matter, and clients should have sensible default relays for new users that haven't built a relay list of their own yet. But they can only do so when there are solid relay options that allow write access to new users while also effectively recognizing and removing spam.

Clients can also provide tools for mitigating spam that do not rely on relays doing so, such as the way Coracle, Damus, and Nostur can filter posts based on WoT, regardless of what relays they use. Likewise, Amethyst has a toggle to hide posts that have been reported by those you follow. With these types of tools, though, your experience will vary widely from client to client, based on whether they implement similar tools and whether they toggle them on by default.

Meanwhile, picking good relays will affect your experience on all clients. Well... at least the ones that respect your relay choices...

Took a peek of what's going on here, opened up an interesting post, what do I see? Gay porn video spam in replies.

Come on now, in my 2 years, that was the first time I've actually seen porn spam in replies so it must be REALLY REALLY BAD out there.

Yeah, no thanks. Bye 👋🏻

So I've been asked to come on 2 different podcast. Not saying who yet.

I've agreed to one, but not the other. Yet.

I actually have a nervousness about this.

I've never done this before. I have a very playful personality, ( I like to screw with ppl). I'm also a little quirky, and don't necessarily understand everything the way a younger generation does. Gen X here.

Should I do them?

#asknostr does anyone have good resources on how to write CONTEXT.md files for claud and other agents? Id like to start writing these for applesauce and include them in some of the projects I'm working on

Mostly looking for articles on how to think about context files or good examples of them working well.

I would love a native zap stream app. I would stream all the time if there was one.

Where is the nostr citadel city in America?

Less almonds, more pecans.

we'll put back the same style goal as what we did for vanilla... its just plain lightning, nothing fancy, no nostr zap implementation but it works, pure and simple

Send us a message if you dropped more sats, at whatever reward level and we will be sure to reward you. we'll honor that for sure