That's why I've been spending so much time on Simplex recently. If or WHEN the state and other entities infiltrate nostr and attempt to implement the social credit system that was mentioned in that video, they'll have all users' past notes to take into account. In short, we'll all be even more fucked. Nostriches need to take this far more seriously. Until nostr figures out a way to permanently stop the usage of IP and DNS, this will always be an issue. You could use Tor on clients like Amethyst, Jumble and other web apps, but most don't care to or don't see it as ideal since Tor has a tendency to cripple performance.

Best of luck. Sounds very unfair.

Wait, nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm charges late fees?? 😳😳

This is a totally subjective metric; nothing related to social media platforms works. The rank number is not relevant; the relevance is that your pubkey will rank higher than someone trying to impersonate you.

Can you explain what issue you're having clearly please?

I'm not part of the alby team, but have been a user for a while.

You wanna apologize for giving me the Finger?!!

You likely bought a channel and clicked "confirm payment" which also stated the details. Otherwise you would not get such an email...

I guess you ignored it and we can improve the interface for sure. (though I am not sure what is not to understand when one actively clicks "confirm payment")

I know lightning channels are still a new and complicated concept.

Do you have any constructive feedback on how to improve it?

to me this here is like going into a café, seeing the price, ordering a cappuccino, half drinking it and then running out without paying to the marketplace and whining that the café charges for a cappuccino. 😉

In the setup of Alby Hub (which is not in any App Store actually) you will get prompted to open a channel (which is the core concept and requirement of lightning) and are needed to receive and send payments. Lightning channels from service providers (there are 4 supported) cost money.

We know this is a new and still complicated concept and we try to make it usable... any feedback is greatly welcomed.

You must have clicked on "Confirm Payment"...

No need to use all those swear words, feel free and go to use other services!

We're happy to help and explain things and also look into your case if you send details to support.

i run everything with alby, nostr, podcast etc. For me alby is fantastic

i love alby and i am happy to pay every satoshi

Nimrod is building

Wounded in the house of rain

That was fast, LOL.

Bitcoin isn’t here to negotiate. It’s here to crush institutional control over money. Goal is to make central banks irrelevant with unstoppable parallel tech.

Nostr is the scorched-earth weapon against centralized control of communication. Same mission: burn platform social networks to ashes with better infrastructure.

Here’s the kicker. Nostr turbocharges Bitcoin. Every zap is cash moving in a savage circular economy. Every user is a Lightning node in the social battlefield.

This protocol doesn’t just talk Bitcoin. It wields it on the social front.

You’re not discussing freedom. You’re forging it. Every note. Every relay. Every zap. Every follow. Every repost.

Targets locked. Operators armed. Infrastructure live and lethal.

The war’s on. No mercy.

Only back then BSV WAS BitCoin! The Corporation of BitCoin took the copyright name and tilted the B to right offset.

You got it backwards Slayer. BTC is a Fork of BSV Brother.

Isn't BSV a Bitcoin fork? Or is that something else

Thanks for the BSV context, I remember this now.

The BSV case actually proves my point. When the 100KB limit led to CSAM being uploaded, the solution was services like Money Button and BitcoinFiles blacklisting content at the application layer. They updated Terms of Service and moderated their platforms. The blockchain itself remained neutral while services filtered. That’s exactly what I’m advocating, individual operators making their own choices without protocol level censorship.

Satoshi said messages should not be recorded in the blockchain as a design principle. I agree with the intent. But there’s a difference between what Bitcoin should be used for versus hardcoding enforcement of that through filtering. Satoshi built structural constraints like block size limits, not content filters requiring ongoing human judgment about transaction intent.

The fundamental question remains, does Bitcoin survive through protocol neutrality plus responsible application layer filtering, or through coordinated protocol level censorship? BSV handled it without changing the base protocol. That’s evidence the permissionless layer can work while services act responsibly.

How Big is the op return on BSV? No Limit like Core v30.

We live in a society based on fake realities, where consensus is manufactured, dissent is algorithmically marginalized, and the boundary between persuasion and manipulation has collapsed. The response cannot be to create alternative walled gardens with "better" gatekeepers. It must be to eliminate the gates themselves.

Nostr is not salvation. It is an experiment in institutional design, grounded in the recognition that freedom is not a feature granted by platforms but a property that emerges from proper protocol architecture. It asks: What social forms become possible when communication infrastructure cannot be captured by concentrated power?

The answer to that question will be written by those who choose to build, to speak, and to think in spaces that cannot be owned. Not because such spaces are perfect, but because they remain contestable: open to revision, resistant to closure, generative of possibilities we cannot yet imagine.

Philosophically, we face an epistemic crisis. When institutions operate opaquely, citizens cannot distinguish between legitimate authority and arbitrary power. The social contract depends on rational consent, which requires observable fairness. Without visible justice, we’re asked to trust blindly, something Enlightenment thinking rejected for good reason.

The trust collapse isn’t a crisis of cynicism, it’s a crisis of evidence.

People didn’t become paranoid; institutions became predictable.

Pure freedom is a hell of a drug, isn't it?

not sure how i feel about nostr being called a "blockchain DAPP" but the rest of it is fire haha

No no. This is how we al learn

Love the fire, though.

It's basically public email lol