time for a nostr 2024 predictions thread

name me your 3 biggest predictions regarding nostr for the upcoming year

we'll come back to this thread at the end of 2024

Nice! But I think search and explore should be different things.

Search: I know what I want.

Explore: Give me something cool I might like.

The point is that hashrate is what's desirable (and directly linked to Bitcoin), not energy use.

If someone improves efficiency such that energy use is decreased while hashrate increases, THAT is desirable.

Of course, in the real world every time efficiency increases, energy usage goes UP, not down, because the efficient use of energy makes it more affordable and thus available to a wider market of users.

But the energy consumption is incidental to the generation of hash, or else we'd all just be firing up the least efficient (but cheapest) miners available in order to consume as much energy as possible, which is obviously not the case.

The reason I asked about OOP specifically is because it introduces a layer of abstraction that is relevant to this discussion.

Think of it this way: mining hardware is increasing in efficiency, right? Why?

If energy usage is all that matters, there would be no incentive to increase efficiency, and ASICs would never have been developed. But because Bitcoin cares about the hashrate - but NOT the amount of energy used to generate that hashrate - there is a layer of abstraction between Bitcoin and its energy consumption.

So Bitcoin is INDIRECTLY, but not directly, linked to its energy consumption.

Are you familiar with software programming? Particularly, Object Oriented Programming?

#nostr clients are based in which part of the world?

I know #damus is based in Canada

#asknostr

Proof-of-Work exists far beyond Bitcoin and Nostr. In life if you want to meet a goal, you have to put in the work and try to make it happen.