Nostr and Bitcoin key handling is very similar on the tech side.
But there is an important difference: with Bitcoin one usually uses multiple pubkeys or even clients, and want to hide any relationship between those. In Nostr, one mostly wants the same identity (pubkey) across different clients.
How many users are on Nostr?
Well, it doesn't really matter, the fact is it's growing!
Recently I've heard numbers like 250k or more.
With a little crawling (follows lists) I found ~160k pubkeys.
You're journey at Swan was probly great, but just listen to your heart! And to the birds!
BTW, your contribution to Nostr are incredible! ❤
In here there are about 320 pubkeys with over 1k followers, the top having 24k (as found by a little crawling).
Nostr is huge, but plenty of room to grow.
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I've been doing that almost every evening! Helps a lot with drying laundry as well 🌡🥵🔥
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Thanks for replying!
The relay selection in Gossip is great.
I also understand that there are some deliberate choices to enable working with no ID imported as well; keeping follows and relay lists even with no identity.
Used to other clients, I expect that importing an identity leads to showing the follow list and feed, without manually entering relays. If this is not possible by design, I can live with that (then my trick is to keep multiple gossip data dirs and rotating them).
Currently I cannot say if something is buggy or by design, and frankly I have not spent the time to systematically test it; sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. But e.g. now after ID import and manually adding my 8 relays it found my metadata (sometimes that’s sporadic too), but not my follower list (it was updated recently),
I usually import only pubkey, I’m not sure if that’s relevant.
In @gossip, I often have chicken-and-egg problem:
- it cant fetch anything until I manually enter some relays
- relays used are picked based on follows list, if the follows list is empty, it does not connect to a relay
- even after I add relays, it often has difficult getting my meta, or my follows list
Cashu -- ecash+BTC/LN combo -- is a great idea.
As I see, it combines the drawbacks of
- self-custody solutions (you can lose your funds)
- custodian solutions (they can rug you)
:))) Still, it's a great idea!
I don't care about how many (or few) followers I have, but I like Coracle, because it shows slightly higher count than other clients :)
A cashless society is a surveillance society
1 MH? That can make 0.27 satoshis per day, or 0.000075$/day. In other words, nothing :)
90% of my Rust compile errors are fixed by prepending a '&' before an expression.
9% is removing a '&'.
1% is others -- like prepending a '*'.
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How can mighty #[1] is not zappable?!
Go see for yourself if wandering nearby!
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I'm still wrapping my head around this... 😲
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