THE NOSTR REPORT

The Great Firewall of China

Feb 2, 2023

Block Height:

774,777

Moscow Time

4,224

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🎙Quote of the Day🎙️

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#[0] “The whole point of nostr is that it can't be stopped simply by taking an app off the app store.

If the CCP or Charlie Munger want it banned you're probably doing something right.”

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🚨Headline Nostr News🚨

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Damus App approval brings on tsunami 🌊 of new users and reaches 56k app store downloads and steadily climbs up charts of most popular app. #[2] #[3]

#[4] notes that most of these users appear to be from China according to his relay data #[5]

Unfortunately, Damus was quickly 👀banned from the China App Store with the Cyberspace Administration of China 👀citing illegal content. Good thing Damus didn’t get put on the China app store on 🍆D-Day🍆.

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Even though Damus App is now banned in China, it appears that some relays are still able to service Chinese clients.

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Speaking of relays, the surge in popularity of nostr has caused relays to be overwhelmed with record number of clients connecting. Eden relays hit with 800k new requests from China and 600k from US clients. Cameri and FiatJaf think scaling horizontally is the only solution.

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#[9] reminds us that GitHub is a centralized service subject to US sanctions and can be blocked by the Great Firewall, increasing the utility for a Nostr GitHub replacement. FOSS is incredible but needs to be hosted on a decentralized service to reach its full potential.

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#[11] poses the question: “are ordinals an ⚔️attack⚔️ on #Bitcoin?” Luxor mining admits to stealing pool contributors hash in order to pull off the 4MB jpeg stunt with Udi and Eric Wahl.

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🏝️Nostrica Update🏝️

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#[14] notes that 360 virtual participants have signed up so far!

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🖥️nostr Tech🖥️

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#[16] and #[17] collaborate on wss://puravida.nostr.land, the first ♀️female-run♀️ paid relay, to the family of nostr.land relays!

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#[19] Damus is 2nd most popular social network app in Hong Kong on the App Store.

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#[21] ⚠️EU bans Linux OS⚠️!!

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#[23] reiterates the “dumb relay” / “smart client” ethos of nostr and says that clients should be able to find people on different relays.

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#[25] NVK reports stats from BRB.io

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#[27] Terry Yiu implores developers to use open source translators rather than centralized platforms like Google Translate.

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#[29] The Rise of Paid Nostr Relays

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⚡nostr Business⚡

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#[31] 🤡⚠️Charlie Munger (99) gives policy and investing advice⚠️🤡.

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#[33] Don’t get scammed by Damus tokens being sold on shitcoin exchanges.

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