Claiming that monero pumping price wise would motivate ASIC manufacturers to break RandomX's ASIC-resistance is just pure speculation. You're not dealing with facts, it's pure FUD, the same nature of wild speculations that are used to attack other aspects of bitcoin in the future.

Bitcoin mining centralization seems to me as worriesome as RandomX not being asic resistant. Both pure speculation on unchatered waters.

We will achieve privacy in different ways, like lightning, ark, ecash etc

Is #nostr just a circle-jerk echo chamber? I haven’t seen many notes yet that talk about anything besides “look at us being decentralised”, “hodl #bitcoin” or “haha #worldcoin”.

Not that I disagree with these, but I am missing some diversity for this to be able to replace other social media for me.

Am I holding this wrong?

It has way better privacy guarantees than nostr

People convinced me to move to Signal, and then to Nostr.

Then they said Bluesky and Threads which I have resisted. I can't be everywhere.

Now they are saying Simplex.

I'm on Twitter, Email, Signal, Nostr, Whatsapp, and DMs.

Give me the Simplex case. Make this Herpes-adjacent name sound good to me. Is there critical mass there? Should my scrambled attention start to spend some time there? Tell me.

I don’t agree with the approach

I have already created one service for digital items Zapit.live you can put any content behind lightning paywall like blog, pictures, videos, anything. User will only get the content when they pay the invoice.

Ok...does not require ID.... but Google knows you downloaded so the identity problem is really at source: google

Also the internet provider knows who you are. We should have all that decentralised first.

Every artist will have their own small marketplace, something like Damian.com/pubkey. So, if you trust that it is the artist you want to buy from, you can purchase their product. The website will be online in the next few days, but it will be in the Alpha version, which means it will work but will lack some advanced features.

No escrow? How would this work without incredible amounts of trust?

The quality of users on Nostr is very premium, you always get very meaningful responses and also watching small communities, completely different from each other, organizing here is fascinating to watch.

I think we are really headed in the right direction.

We're actually not the same person, I copied her account to troll her for being a twat. But now we kinda get along, and this account just became...idk fun? But nah, not a spook but I totally want to make a psyop badge now 😘

Damus.

Haven’t used any of the web based Nostr resources yet.

Look I’ll be honest. I’ve been a HUGE Nostr hater.

I honestly can’t fucking use this damn app and it makes me feel like an idiot. I have NO IDEA why you guys like it

I follow people that I never end up following, I write messages I can’t see, and the only advice I get is to do a bunch of random technical hoo-ha

But yesterdays Twitter hack was a BIG wake-up call. I got almost no help from centralized Twitter

So I’m going to commit to spending 30 minutes a day to try to figure Nostr out, okay? 🤝

Day 1. Let’s go ⚡️

I generally oppose services requiring phone numbers, just to fuck us over.

When will plebs understand its NOT for security, but to get data from you easier & not allowing you to have more than a single verified account?

It's so easy to social engineer your way into getting someone's phone number & then getting access to all important centralised shit services, like Google, Amazon & Microsoft products registered by the victim, who lost his phone number through a social engineering attack.

There are tons of people who lost so much, due to this.

If services actually want security, they need to implement hardware key, TOTP & GPG support. This would be implemented by those monopolies, instead of the requirement for phone numbers, if they actually gave a damn about your account security.