Isn’t that exactly how nostr works though? Relays are like nodes, notes are like transactions in the mempool?
As long as there are enough nodes/relays it’s difficult/impossible to shutdown the whole network. Right?
Because it an inherently subjective topic, and so your conception of what’s “wrong” is very different from someone else’s
“This all sounds too good to be true”
Don’t despair, with your friend saying that there might be a chance the seed was planted.
The impending bull market is fertile soil for it to thrive in
I’m hopeful about nostr, but I feel like this is rose coloured glasses during the honeymoon period before it becomes mainstream
There was similar positive sentiment during the early Internet when it was just the early adopters, and then we saw a gradual shift as the mainstream came online
Maybe it will be different with nostr, decentralisation, and changed incentives, but I remain cautious yet hopeful
We all need to be very aware that what nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 is describing here is not some distant dystopian future. It's our dystopian reality.
In May, Elliptic, together with researchers from MIT and IBM, developed a dataset to identify "the shape of money laundering" on the blockchain.
This dataset attempts to predict money laundering activity that has "not yet been labeled" by distinguishing between what the dataset defines as "anomalous signatures" and Bitcoin transfers between "licit services".
Falling out of these clusters deemed normal by intelligence financed corporations already leaves you penalized. Avoid KYC services? Flagged. Can't tie your transactions to a bank account? Flagged. Frequent user of coinjoins? Flagged.
You are already being debanked because a computer program has decided that you are a money launderer – not because you did something illegal, but because your transactions are deemed abnormal – and you have no legal recourse as suspicious activity reports swear financial institutions to absolute secrecy.
It's the full on criminalization of privacy in finance. The future is here, and it's Orwellian.
Hey friend, I know things seem scary right now but…
Things are going to get way worse
Hope they self-custodied and consolidated UTXOs…
Depends on the app/client
I can see the emoji on Damus, but not Primal
I enjoyed Project Hail Mary audiobook, if you like hard sci-fi like The Martian (same author)
I guess, choose your relay operators carefully then?
Or just run your own relay?
Can we just stop for a minute and appreciate that there’s an entire unregulated online economy and money transmitters operating outside of the purview of any government and there’s nothing they can do to stop it
Can’t fix it
Centralised platforms like X are fundamentally broken
Open and decentralised protocols like nostr are the future
Front end application removes a feature you value on nostr? Drop it and use a different app
No such choice with sites like X
Stuff like this is just the beginning
Bitcoin, LN, and potentially other L2s are going to fix the Internet with a free flowing digitally native money
#Bitcoin
I feel this is particularly bad for those who value constructive criticism, but need to sift through the toxicity to find it. Would be easier to just ignore everyone, but then you miss the diamonds in the rough.
"what do i desire?"
i can't even answer that, other than a vague notion of "create beauty", but maybe that's enough to get started...
Sad to hear that. I really like your work and wish I could afford to support it
I think the other important part of agnosticism is to be passionately uncertain about the *definition* of god, which plays a large part in the uncertainty of existence/nonexistence
A statistical analysis of “crises” over the years would be interesting
Is there a correlation with “anxiety inducing events” and election cycles?
Or maybe some other cycle?