What are you trying to do?
If you think bitcoin is good at that, you should try using dollars in cash. There's no public ledger to tie you to how you spend it. Way better for being a scumbag piece of shit.
Like all other media you either trust a host or you are one. The relays just route your note link to your media server. As far as a client exclusively for video/audio, most are focused of communication or streaming. Zap.Stream is a streaming client that you could use to play your music for an audience. Zap splits are dependant on the client.
nostr has no global source of truth, and that is a good thing
Out of interest, I follow the progress of a lot of other projects similar to nostr, and a couple links surfaced today:
BlueSky has a big "firehose" connection that streams all updates (new posts, reactions, etc) to subscribers. Unsurprisingly, this is difficult to process except on beefy servers with lots of bandwidth. So, one proposed solution is to strip out all that pesky cryptography (signatures, merkle tree data, etc): https://jazco.dev/2024/09/24/jetstream/
And over on Farcaster, keeping their hubs in sync is too difficult, so they want to make all posts globally sequenced, like a blockchain. The details are still being worked out, but I think it's safe to assume there will be a privileged global sequencer who decides on this ordering (and possibly which posts are included at all): https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol/discussions/193
In my opinion, both of these issues are symptoms of an underlying errant philosophy. These projects both want there to be a global source of truth: A single place you can go to guarantee you're seeing all the posts on a thread, from a particular user, etc. On BlueSky that is https://bluesky.app and on Farcaster that is https://warpcast.com .
Advocates of each of these projects of course would dispute this, pointing out that you could always self-host, or somehow avoid depending on their semi-official infrastructure, but the truth is that if you're not on bluesky.app or warpcast.com, you don't exist, and nobody cares that you don't exist.
nostr has eschewed the concept of global source of truth. You can't necessarily be sure you are seeing everything. Conversations may sometimes get fragmented, posts may disappear, and there may be the occasional bout of confusion and chaos. There is no official or semi-official nostr website, app, or relay, and this is a good thing. It means we are actually building a decentralised protocol, not just acting out decentralisation theatre, or pretending we'll get there eventually and that the ends justify the means.
Back when computers were primitive and professional data-centres didn't exist, it was impossible to build mega-apps like Twitter. Protocols had to be decentralised by default -- there was simply no other way. We can learn a lot by looking back to protocols of yesteryear, like Usenet and IRC, and still-popular protocols like email and HTTP. None of these assume global sources of truth, and they are stronger and better for it, as is nostr.
What a great post to not be able to Zap. 😤
There are several ways to get bitcoin without revealing your real identity. Coinbase has limits to withdrawals capping at .08 BTC per week. From the point of withdrawal your coins will be tied to your identity and can be tracked unless thoroughly mixed(which costs fees). Also there's the ick factor that they promote shitcoins, work with the central banks and US Gov regulators, and hold Blackrock, fidelity, and other ETF coins which makes them a hacker's honey pot.
I have found Border wallets way better for security and now way to $5 wrench me. If pressed I would embed an NFC key in an innocuous item as a multisig layer.
This true? It seems a little too simplistic. Plant/seed oils are definitely mitochodrial disruptors. Just unsure how much that translates to both uneven subdermal fat in legs and excessive fat deposits in the chest.
I'm sorry nostr:nprofile1qqst94nsmefmya53crp5qq39kewrtgndqcynhnzp7j8lcu0qjple6jspzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skueqtvj70p but your relay is the only one Replay guys reach me on. Gotta stop using it. I hope it gets figured out.
Women should not be cops is the message of this video.
Power passthrough is very rare for many standalone powerbanks. (mostly due to a cheap BMS) most times you need a seperate BMS to have voltage overflow stored. Kind of a bulky solution to what would seem like a simple panel, battery, and load, setup.
Come for a run with me 🏃♂️ https://video.nostr.build/9a26f7467e48a7d41de817d558793534efa9b1ddf84b5f6a9d4bfaa40db66677.mp4
In through the nose, out through the mouth.
Go back, read your note, then come back with an actual comment instead of a passive aggressive chide.
This is difficult to articulate in text but I will give it one more shot. The presupposition is that there exists such a thing as "public land." There is no such thing. All land is owned. "Public land" so called, is owned(stolen) by the state. Infrastructure is property that adjoins land owned by two or more parties. (Utilities, roads, and street lights)
The proposal here is using a mesh-type system where your node is a data propagator as well as a send/receiver. Utilizing either a hard-wired mesh (likely to a high bandwidth local propagation node) or a radio (lower bandwidth self-hosted propagation node). This makes the internet as fast as the fewest hops between you an your local website's closest host server farm. Any break in the mesh would be routed around but through I2P and RNS it is end-to-end encrypted web traffic with blind intermediaries. This is currently a possiblity you would only like be using an ISP's infrastructure without their knowledge which could eventually be found and blocked. Anyway the point is there are self-sovereign solutions but the take time and knowledge that people are wasting serving the state.
I meant in the start over scenario. The cabling construction make it ownable instead of a "tap into a band of frequency" type model. In that world, (RNS sort of already does this) you would not have an ISP and infrustructure would be local but connected to a global network like BTC Nodes or Nostr relays.
The real question is why would you want an ISP. Pointing a radio antenna or dish would make way more sense in most cases. Even when it wouldn't (urban centers) running wire is infrasructure not a corporate duty.


