It was tried in Norway with disastrous results. Why remain somewhere you are treated poorly when places like UAE welcome you with open arms?

There are even services like Nomad Capitalist that help you choose the right jurisdiction for you.

"Should every nostrich run a relay?" is a very different question from "should every Bitcoiner run a Bitcoin/lightning node?" due to the differences in guarantees.

I think every nostrich should run a relay IF THEY REQUIRE PERMANENCE for their historical notes. What do I mean by this?

Relays should be considered ephemeral. They are under no obligation to store your data indefinitely unless you enter into an agreement for that (paid relays.) Relays can go offline at any time and take your notes with them. This is why clients connect to many relays by default, for redundancy.

I run a relay for myself that only accepts notes from my pubkey. If my third party relays change, I'll just push my old notes from my personal relay to new relays for them to be indexed.

Nostr can't scale from the perspective of expecting every nostr client to connect to thousands or millions of personal relays simultaneously.

How about a new nostr client: lurker

For all those who want to read only, not write.

Private follower list.

Private bookmarks.

No profile.

No reactions.

No posts.

No replies.

No DMs.

Either Nostr evolves to have every client being a relay, or it will fail. The risk is the same as that of LSPs.

Think adversarially and think far into the future. Imagine Nostr running at Telegram scale with 1B users, not the tight knit community is now.

Zuck says Meta is done giving into gov censorship.

It was about $36,000 to attain 6.15 Btc when I started that meme. The price of a car. Everyone else was telling people to get one bitcoin and I was like fuck that. Have some fucking balls and aim a little higher. It was always an aspirational goal and not easy to attain, but still within reach for people who wanted it bad enough. Basically the price of a new car, parking lots full of them. What do you want? New car or 6.15 bitcoin? The choice is yours. There are a lot of guys who heard the call, felt the challenge I was laying out and responded to my specific brand of bravado back then. Next year it’s likely they’ll all be millionaires. Beautiful. Exactly my intended goal.

its so fucking surreal to see crypto pivoting its ass back to bitcoin post-haste

feels like a distraction ngl

-Treat the arrest of the Telegram CEO as an emergency.

-Advocate for his freedom and for all freedom tech providers.

-Support and build things that function without a CEO, like some aspects of Nostr. When authoritarian Europe or the US arrests you, be able to say, “I literally can’t control it, it’s already out there, and we are legion.”

-Tell me and others, as capital providers, how to accelerate this.

That’s been my assumption too. Was fascinating to see how hard the M5M went though, not to mention Reddit banning the tiny ivermectin sub and half the site going batshit for a week at that time. Maybe there’s more to it than meets the eye..

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