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Is there a chart or something for these metrics? Would love to see!
>then I withdraw to Phoenix after its like 50k sats or more
I agree that self-custody is important, but this type of risk management is really all it takes to prevent a disaster.
Having sats in a custodial wallet is the equivalent of walking around with dollar bills. A risk that most people are willing to take, but only to a certain extent.
Keep the amount low, and withdraw if you expect that you won't be sending more any time soon.
>is on practically every Mac on Earth
This is an interesting statement - can you elaborate?
I didn't say they don't know how.
I said they aren't.
The point (and Apple knows this) is advertising and ease of access.
The average iPhone user isn't installing random PWAs. They're not sideloading apps. They're jumping to the app store, checking out the description/downloads/ratings, and tapping an install button.
Imagine if Twitter wasn't readily available in the app store. Do you think Twitter would see a noticeable decline in users?
To achieve noteworthy nostr adoption, hurdles such as these can't simply be ignored.
Marketing for app stores is so good that people readily download apps that do nothing more than host a web browser that's set to a mobile site URL.
Obviously Damus and Amethyst don't fall into that category, but I've had a great time using snort.social on both desktop and mobile.
1 sat = 1 sat
Thanks for your efforts and I hope things improve quickly
Hard to talk about blockchain technology in a meaningful way because so many of these conversations go like this.
Nostr scratches that itch for me.
There are two downsides of using too many/low quality relays.
Paid relays are paid because they (ideally) put effort into speed/spam filtering/reliability. They can also aggregate from other relays on your behalf. Using a low-quality relay may result in a low-quality experience.
Secondly, notes are downloaded from every relay you're subscribed to. This is the good part of decentralization/censorship resistance but it can also mean using 7x (when using 7 relays vs 1) bandwidth or things loading much slower/out of order.
If someone who is not publishing to any relays you're subscribed to interacts with you, you may not [immediately] see that interaction.
One of the largest genpub obstacles here is that the pure Nostr experience requires effort and curation.
Nostr is all love until things like this happen then the feet come out to start kicking.
Custodial wallets/services (like Strike) could have just as easily been impacted by something like this.
Trusting a bank with reserves is absolutely not a foolish thing to do and it's a larger failure of the overall system that's impacting real people trying to improve the crypto space.
Just an opinion but we're at the stages where users should be contributing beyond callouts.
Instead of noting that a FAQ/README is outdated, open a PR to have it updated.
We should all be working together.
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