If i found the right board then yeah thats really underpowered for a node.

Have you looked into rockpro's at all?

And oldish dell optiplex. Cost a little over 100$ to get that plus a 2tb ssd.

It was still cheaper than getting a raspi assuming you can find one.

Not until I can do it in a non custodial fasion. Almost got my LN node back up. Appreciate the thought though.

If y’all haven’t listened to #[0] latest Bitcoin podcast, you really should make time. He and Luke Broyles kick the tires and light the fires! 🛞 🔥

I think it’s just because there’s not enough users in Nostr at the moment. While twitter is broken. Most smaller accounts don’t have the same problems as the bigger accounts do. They somewhat still works and more things are happening on twitter. Nostr is still very niche, and techie. Network effects play a big role. Give it time. They’ll come around, Preston.

My issue is that I’m not tech savvy and I just don’t have time amidst a full time job to learn to optimize my experience. I just want to login and see a feed that interests me.

I totally want to support Nostr and I see the value but I still don’t even know what a relay is or how to setup a lightning wallet for the zaps I hear about etc.

I support it, I know it’s early, but if there is a hurdle, it feels very daunting. Whoever said it on Twitter about Google; Laziness is the moat.

I had to wait until I found Amethyst because I'm currently using an Android phone and most of the mobile web experiences were meh. Vitor is doing a great job with Amethyst though.

Bitcoiners tried everything.

We went from e-mail lists to Reddit then Twitter then tried Mastodon, TruthSocial, telegram etc etc.

And finally we built our own decentralized social media and everyone else is going to join this because it’s not just for us (bitcoiners) but anyone who wants freedom from the corrupt big tech giants who manipulate and get rich off of you because you are their product.

I think we are in the phase of running away from things like Twitter/Reddit to nostr, so the conversation is about that.

But it goes much broader than just social media. It’s a generalized protocol that enables many use cases, and I think the power of it comes in the ability to go from one use case, or client, to another, quickly and easily.

We haven’t seen much yet around this idea but we will.

I’m personally really hoping for a github replacement that Bitcoin core would feel safe using.

at this point the main reason for twitter is to copy npubs of our friends

storage is cheap, but transferring large amounts of data can be very expensive and in some places not possible

increased bandwidth requirements also make it much more difficult to use Tor and naturally lead to more centralization, both nodes and miners