Sure. If BTC would have been delisted from ALL CEX what would have been the result? It holds its value incredibly well against despite all the opposition by governments, CEX and surveillance capitalism.

Monero is even up against ETH despite its delistings.

Monero is currently more scarce than BTC and will be so for the next 15 years.

this is provably incorrect.

monero recently does over 20% of bitcoins transaction volume.

at EVERY company that offers both Bitcoin and Monero payment methods, Monero is more popular.

absolutely agree Bitcoin has a larger network effect,

but your echo chamber is showing and it's not the disparity you think it is.

Everybody I know that is into BTC also knows about or owns Monero. ALL of them.

If your city only sees little adoption of Bitcoin or Monero humbly ask yourself: What have I done wrong, that my city is so far behind the curve?

At one point OGs realised that being the first Bitcoiner in your city also comes with responsibilities.

I see that Monero people these days care more about their fellow citizens having a good store of value and a PRIVATE means of exchange than wannabe fiat NGU Bitcoiners waiting for Wall street to pump their bags while doing literally nothing. Hopi g the intended outcome is Bitcoin reaches the mainstream as a medium of exchange.

Have you once read the news in the last 10 years?

KYC and custodianship rules 99% of the people that came into Bitcoin in the last 10 years.

Have you ever watched the stats from businesses, giftcard providers, shops that actually accept Bitcoin and Monero as payment?

You'd be stunned. Because Monero is in an excilent position, despite BTC being 5 years way.

It's simply because government seemed to big a hurdle for Bitcoin so the MoE use case was given up in favour for SoV.

It's a good thing it helped the ecosystem draw in billions of worthless fiat, while Monero grew in the underground. One click away of becoming money for anybody who desires to use it to protect ones privacy andtherew also the integrity of ones family, community or business relationships.

Monero sees greater adoption on black, grey and white markets for real transactions than Bitcoin, which is mainly used for speculation.

Thanks!

I’m definitely going to get a Ham radio license too. I’m looking forward to following your progress.

I’m interested in Recticulum too, but starting my learning with Meshtastic.

I’ve tried typing a reply many times. All I can say is my mind is blown. Are you the inventor or are you building on others’ work?

You are right assuming it is not very efficient to try to find _all_ profiles matching one name(e.g. odell). In the metadata case you cannot use a tag in your filter which leaves you the only option to use kind 0 and that is a lot of events even from one relay to sift through.

On the other hand, tag filters are restricted to one letter (e.g. "#e") type of queries for obvious indexing performance reasons. There is no "#n" tag to query for because it doesn't have a special treatment in profile metadata fields, I don't know the reason why(maybe it's there in some nips discussions).

What most devs do is that they have a logged-in current user in their app usually which means they can by default grab a follow list of this user and perhaps also extend that with some web of trust algo into an extended network of trusted pubkeys. This could be on the order of 10 thousands of pubkeys. If you only grab metadata for these (and maybe defer some fetching into the future to gradually download these after login with time and also use some caching) and that will be most likely a feasible task to do.

Not everyone uses web of trust so you can even just rely on direct follows, its up to you.

So it is important in nostr to do smart queries related to the context your user needs or might soon need, because you can be drowning in events or get substantial lags and disconnection issues pretty soon if you make wrong/unreasonable decisions.

The takeaway is, there is no global on nostr so you need to adjust your app design and expectations to reflect this reality.

People don’t realize how momentous this is. Your work is important and it will make a difference someday.

I think he will be back once it takes off