The barrier to entry on Nostr for a developer is about as low as it can get. If you can write a hello world program, you're halfway there. This will lead to a lot of stuff being built, and hopefully the good stuff gets noticed.

I would add Mastodon logo there...

For an open platform, there is so much censorship on various levels (instance, between instances), it's like pure communism. Some instances even forbid "commercial self promotion" and they block instances (and thus all their users) that are too capitalistic.

And then bitcoinhackers instance rugpulled "my" identity.

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told you long time ago

centralization of mining is the major weakness

asics mining: no normal person can afford

therefore being done only by large corporations

which can easily be influenced/coerced by the criminals (=government=mind control) because the criminals know where the miners are located.

monero is decentralized

it can be mined on any cpu, phone, even car radio

the criminals do not know where the miners are

At a small Princeton event last week, among other panels and speeches, Carole House spoke about censoring bitcoin.

She is the former director of cybersecurity for the White House National Security Council, and prior to that was at FinCEN focusing on cryptocurrencies, and prior to that was in the military.

Some of her main points:

-Energy-related regulation may push some hash rate outside of the U.S., whereas she would rather see more of it in the U.S. so that they can force miners to censor the network on the base layer. She also views international cooperation as a necessary component for successful censorship. She also wants stakers to be forced to censor their PoS networks.

-It's not just about telling miners not to mine certain transactions, but to not even build atop blocks that have non-compliant transactions, so that those transactions don't get anywhere in the chain. A 51% attack, in other words. Her main concern is censoring states like North Korea from being able to participate in the network.

The event was interesting because there were several very different perspectives. On one hand there was Roya Mahboob talking about using bitcoin in Afghanistan, followed by Troy Cross, Craig Warmke, and Natalie Smolenski talking about the importance of bitcoin from an ethical perspective. On the other hand, there were panels about Bored Apes and speeches about how to censor the networks.