Well, that wouldnt fit in the diagram. Pesticides arent sterilizing people either

Well, that wouldnt fit in the diagram. Pesticides arent sterilizing people either

#silentgenocide

There are lots of unsolved problems but there is thr biggest fundamental issue I personally can’t find any solution to and the community simply ignores it. Consider pre requisits

1. You consider nostr to become a social network in modern definition of the term i.e allowing hundreds of millions of ppl around the globe to communicate and discover

2. You do not expect every 3rd nostr user to selfhost their relay on a $5/mo and this to somehow magically allow previous thesis

3. You do not expect 100% of the users to pay $10/mo for the less features any existing “free” social network provides

With this in mind, the fundamental problem is the following:

The only way to provide customers with okish services requires you to consolidate client and server and at this point you become web2.0 company with incentives to lock your users inside of your ecosystem.

If you believe in “free market” you have to understand web2.0 companies tried to break this circle for 30 years without luck. So the problem nostr faces right now is much challenging than implementing enterprise relay or even figuring out this hopium outbox model. But its easier to ignore hard challenges

There are lots of unsolved problems but there is thr biggest fundamental issue I personally can’t find any solution to and the community simply ignores it. Consider pre requisits

1. You consider nostr to become a social network in modern definition of the term i.e allowing hundreds of millions of ppl around the globe to communicate and discover

2. You do not expect every 3rd nostr user to selfhost their relay on a $5/mo and this to somehow magically allow previous thesis

3. You do not expect 100% of the users to pay $10/mo for the less features any existing “free” social network provides

With this in mind, the fundamental problem is the following:

The only way to provide customers with okish services requires you to consolidate client and server and at this point you become web2.0 company with incentives to lock your users inside of your ecosystem.

If you believe in “free market” you have to understand web2.0 companies tried to break this circle for 30 years without luck. So the problem nostr faces right now is much challenging than implementing enterprise relay or even figuring out this hopium outbox model. But its easier to ignore hard challenges

I expect most ecash transactions will be redeemed as a Lightning transfer anyway, which as you said resolves the ambiguity in most cases

If you want essentially the same assurance with strict ecash though, you can just code your wallet to check for a connection with the mint before unblinding, right?

I can’t speak to the first one

But the second one is not that different from the days of writing checks or the risk of counterfeit bills or the rare times when the credit card machine goes down

Social responsibility will always be part of the equation in any economy. Trust minimization is a good goal, trust elimination is a pipe dream

There’s still trust involved in the eggs not being rotten, for example

Usually, the phrase “social credit system” implies centralization. Think CCP.

But a decentralized reputation system != a social credit system, in the same sense that bitcoin != central banking.

I’d love to collaborate with someone in the creation of a service that keeps track of your web of trust, i.e. it monitors follows, mutes, zaps, reactions, etc and processes them in real time into influence scores as calculated using the grapevine protocol. These scores will be stored using events which will probably be too large for most standard relays to want to store. But clients will want to access these scores, either by API or by accessing the relevant events, and use them to stratify content. In theory everyone could run a personal “grapevine relay” that stores these large files, but in practice most users won’t do that. But what they will do is pay for a service that runs one of these specialized relays for them.

I talk about the grapevine in a podcast with hodlbod — I’ll post the link to the podcast below. Or check out brainstorm.ninja, which will calculate these scores (your grapevine) for you. What I haven’t done yet is build the relay to store the scores as some kind of specialized event.

Anyone who knows how to build relays and would like to collaborate on a project like this, hit me up.

I would really appreciate those people to write at least short and brief articles on how they are going to make money with it, I don’t think this is such a big secret in an open source ecosystem, and it would definitely help spark interest in developers

Nostr relays can also work over TLS encrypted connections. In fact most do.

If the relay address starts with wss:// it is encrypted (web socket secure) and ws:// is unencrypted websocket connection.

Nostr relays can also work over TLS encrypted connections. In fact most do.

If the relay address starts with wss:// it is encrypted (web socket secure) and ws:// is unencrypted websocket connection.

What’s the go-to URL you share for nostr-pilling folks?

The current moment is Nostr’s calling. Social apps being banned in Turkey, Venezuela, and Russia, UK citizens being targeted for online posts. Companies being held liable for online speech.

Huge opportunity to spread the vision of a permissionless, decentralized communications protocol

Can you set a maximum fee when paying an invoice. I’ve never tried it before.

What questions?

Oh trust me it is.