I tend to prefer to make my own decisions based on knowledge. I have no interest in other peoples opinion (in a nice way 😂 ).

I don't want to re-iterate the arguments, but OCEANs goal of giving miners control of the blocks is the very ideal of decentralisation.

I've seen plenty of OCEAN blocks mined where the miner created their own template to include or exclude the transactions they wanted. This is decentralisation.

More importantly the concerns about pool centralisation are very clearly founded.

I've not heard any valid reasons why this is bad.

Yes

The amount of personal info ChatGPT has on its users is probably an absolutely terrifying level of privacy breach that millions sleepwalk right into.

End times shit.

Easiest rec I typically have for folks is keep ChatGPT general, try your best to avoid personal info, and for more personal info type conversations use venice.ai. Not perfect, but they’re both user friendly

It's not a good idea just because the more secure options have shitty UX. It doesn't sacrifice some security. It sacrifices all security. You're at the mercy of whatever potentially shit tier app you're tossing your key into. Instead of one dedicated app or service, you make it all of them. Users would need to understand up front that they can lose their entire identity on Nostr if they lose that key. My probably unpopular opinion is that we shouldn't send anyone into the Nostr flow at all yet unless they are technical enough to grasp the dangers and how keys work. At least not if they plan on putting a lot of work into an npub without understanding key security. Social identity should be just as important as something like Bitcoin keys, in my opinion. I refuse to login to anything that doesn't use Amber at this point (using my primary identity). I prefer something totally offline, but Amber is the best I have found.

The relay wizard probably needs a remake, it's confusing due to the way nostr relays/outbox works and the terms developers use.

To try to keep it a bit simple, "Announce..." is where you tell others:

"Hey, I post (write) to these relays, so if you want to see my posts, you should look on those"

and:

"I use these relays to receive (read) posts, so if you have a message for me, posts it there"

What you "Announce..." is just informational for others and can be different from the "Configure your relays..." section.

The first (Announce) is telling people you hang out at the mall, the second (Configure) is you deciding to go by car (paid relay) or public transport (free relay), the other people don't need to know how you get there or use the same transport, just make just you end up at same mall(s) or you will never meet.

Ideally this should all be automated/hidden without losing its advantages, unfortunately you have to be a bit of an IT admin now to get this stuff right.

You ever tried YakiHonne for Long form articles?

I see, this is currently not possible.

GOSSIP USERS:

Several major bugs have been fixed in the last week. If you are on master, please pull and recompile.

* PRIVACY: gossip was authenticating to relays in many cases even if you turned on "require user approval before AUTHenticating..."

* gossip was rendering nevent links as note1 links in some cases

* when clicking the parent link, sometimes it wasn't finding the parent note (even though the note you clicked correctly hinted at which relay the note was at)

* new users who adjusted settings during the first run were having their public key wiped, which appeared to have no identity and they had to regenerate on second run

I'm going to create the world's first AI blockchain.

... what else is big right now? I can throw it in.

nostur is the best ios client if you post from multiple accounts !

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“Wikipedia is permitting information manipulation on its platform, including the rewriting of key, historical events and biographical information of current and previous American leaders, as well as other matters implicating the national security and the interests of the United States,” Martin wrote. “Masking propaganda that influences public opinion under the guise of providing informational material is antithetical to Wikimedia’s ‘educational’ mission.”

I see a lot of critics attacking bitcoiners for saving instead of spending. but bitcoin is money. whether you save it or spend it, you're serving the same purpose. the hard truth is, as long as fiat keeps flooding the system with unlimited supply, bitcoin will remain a store of value first and a medium of exchange second. and if fiat survives a little more, that dynamic will probably last for a few more decades. also, the more people save in bitcoin, the more they'll eventually spend it. you can't spend money you never saved.

Other question: if I have a paid relay in the configured relay list (but not announced) will Nostr authenticate to and use it?

I see, this is currently not possible.

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