coinbase is releasing the “base app”

- shitcoin wallet

- shitcoin trading

- social network

- social games

- encrypted chat

all rolled into one with usdc zaps

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But there is no pubkeys in SYN flood for random ports

Yea, 3M ips

Can it handle 600k requests per second? Thats the current connection rate

This used to work and i'm getting the same spinner as Shawn. App is untouched for over a month, only thing that changed was Vertex afaik

Your issue is a different one, has to do with Amber. Which version are you on?

Thanks for the heads up! nostr:nprofile1qqs0dqlgwq6l0t20gnstnr8mm9fhu9j9t2fv6wxwl3xtx8dh24l4auspz4mhxue69uhkzat5dqhxummnw3erztnrdaksz9nhwden5te0d4kx26m49eex2ctv0yhxcmmv9uq3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7dj6rpa issues with the DVM after you launched the new Vertex it seems

It’s great how nostr has people like you obsessed with one component of the user experience and passionately peruse the best version of it. Great work!

Interesting. Does that technique add much in the way of computational overhead?

Onward Pip🫡🚀🪼

Do we need to update our DVM integration for compatibility?

nostr:npub176p7sup477k5738qhxx0hk2n0cty2k5je5uvalzvkvwmw4tltmeqw7vgup are you seeing much in the way of “rank sink” (aka PageRank island) being exploited by bad actors? I haven’t done a thorough analysis but even with a damping factor of 0.85 I’ve seen it crop up sporadically.

Is it not 1 credit per pubkey?

Planning on releasing it as a service first :)

Experimenting with localized rankings and implicit trust. Real time for these algorithms is too costly, so I am aiming for near-real time (30m-1h) + real time postprocessing

$5000/1M requests is absurd though

Nice!

I have some interesting methods I want to try for social graph analysis…

Not boring.

Sexy as fuck.

nostr:nprofile1qqs0dqlgwq6l0t20gnstnr8mm9fhu9j9t2fv6wxwl3xtx8dh24l4auspz4mhxue69uhkzat5dqhxummnw3erztnrdaksz9nhwden5te0d4kx26m49eex2ctv0yhxcmmv9uq3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7dj6rpa and I yet to connect directly. This needs remedying!

No worries. Wasn’t meant as a dig or anything negative. And it’s good tooling that we all need for better Nostr so don’t stop. We can use your tech for good

Network graphing tech. Visualization and link analysis. Clustering of nodes and such.

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Great convo with nostr:nprofile1qqs0dqlgwq6l0t20gnstnr8mm9fhu9j9t2fv6wxwl3xtx8dh24l4auspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqg4waehxw309ash2arg9ehx7um5wgcjucm0d52m9qj9

Thank you 🫡

💪🏻

Vertex by nostr:npub176p7sup477k5738qhxx0hk2n0cty2k5je5uvalzvkvwmw4tltmeqw7vgup sounds like a great service all major clients should consider using.

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Nuked my "Following".

On purpose :Check:

Nostr will fail to the extent that people can't tell an impersonator from the real thing. The number of reports I get about my impersonator indicates to me that nostr is failing. But it doesn't have to be this way! Web of trust fixes this.

Let's play a game of "spot the impersonator". I created a fresh impersonator account with a valid NIP 05 from nostrplebs and all the same profile data. I didn't bother to clone my notes or create a bunch of sock puppet followers, but that could easily be done, and would improve the resemblance.

Coracle:

Pretty good if I do say so myself. Social trust is shown in two separate ways: web of trust indicator and followers tab (although followers is not complete or sybil resistant).

0xchat:

Exactly the same, other than NIP 05 address, which I don't consider any sort of validation at all. This is a classic phishing maneuver, and recently allowed nostr:nprofile1qyfhwumn8ghj7am0wsh82arcduhx7mn99uqjzamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwd5xzamw09jkzem9wghxxmmd9a5kucn00qqjqamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwd5xzamw09jkzem9wghxxmmd9a3ksct5qy38wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndpshwmnev4skwetj9e3k7mf0da6hgcn00qqjxamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwd5xzamw09jkzem9wghxxmmd9ac8y6tkv96x2qpqclk6vc9xhjp8q5cws262wuf2eh4zuvwupft03hy4ttqqnm7e0jrqlg4lcf's impersonator to trick some people.

Yakihonne:

Some social indicators are shown, but are not sybil resistant. They're also down the page a bit, and might not be noticed by users.

Jumble:

No social proof indicated at all — the tabs at the bottom can easily be faked by the impersonator.

Nostter:

No social proof, and failed to validate the NIP 05 for the real user.

Nostrudel:

Nostrudel does something original in showing the public key color. But how often are you going to memorize a user's color? I'd argue this is even worse than nothing because it obscures the NIP 05, which _might_ tip you off.

Iris:

Iris shows wot-vetted "known followers", which is good. In other places, a wot-based check mark is shown next to user avatars. This should probably be added to the profile page too, but still, pretty good.

Amethyst:

Amethyst shows some social proof, but it's hard to tell exactly what those profile pictures mean.

Primal:

Like yakihonne, social proof is visible, but not sybil-resistant.

Let's take a look at search now. Some clients do a much better job at this, some do a MUCH worse job.

Coracle:

WOT indicators, correct sorting, complete results. Arguably, the impersonators should be filtered out entirely, but I personally prefer to have them included.

Jumble:

Same thing, minus WOT indicators. Not bad.

Nostrudel:

It's a pass, but I'm not sure if duplicates are filtered out on purpose or not. The check marks indicate NIP 05 validation, not wot validation.

Yakihonne:

Only shows the legit version, along with a badge (I'm unsure if it's NIP 05 or something else). Pretty good.

Iris:

Very limited results, WOT-based check, pretty good.

Primal:

Eliminates impersonators, show follower count, pretty good (though not sybil resistant in all cases).

The winners are Iris and Coracle for web of trust indicators, and Primal and Yakihonne in the "global view of the network" category. I'd love to see this get better though, and not just because I am now famous enough to have an impersonator. WOT calculations are low-hanging fruit, especially with the vertex DVM by nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qyt8wumn8ghj7ct4w35zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpzemhxue69uhk6mr9dd6juun9v9k8jtnvdakz7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uqzpa5rapcrtaadfazwpwvvl0v4xlskg4df9nfcem7yevcaka2h7hhjm9zju5 around. Getting this right is a core value proposition of nostr and is worth the effort.

Is there a way to filter out all of this buzzbot and zap raffle stuff?

Displaying follower counts alongside names would be cool!

Are there any clients currently implementing this, or is there another way to access this DVM? I don't see it in the DVM feeds on Amethyst, for instance.

42,000 people following Jack (as a proxy to the size of the network) was pretty brutal to see

Obviously not everyone follows Jack, but still brutal

I assumed there was more

I wonder if this topic is of any relevance to any one of you: celebrity impersonators on nostr, substack and other platforms, all connected to invest frauds and crypto scamming, usually operating with direct messages on one platform and invitation to telegram conversations. How do you verify legitimacy of an account on nostr ?

#asknostr

Is there an API where I can search a username and get the most fitting npub(s) back?