Price obsession

Fun fact: fun facts are fun

That is kinda how Nostr is meant to work. But there’s an open debate in the dev community about how much to put in relays (just text? Images? Videos?) it’s still an outstanding question.

If relays house too much data it’ll be hard for people to run small relays so the network will be more centralised. If relays don’t allow people to store whole files in them, then those files will have to be stored somewhere.

Personally I’d like to keep big files off relays and lets solutions like Nostr.build provide specialised efficient offerings and accept Bitcoin as payment.

But there’s already apps that allow a Nostr user to create notes and store them on relays.

People obsessing with the price instead of building solutions and helping adoption

I wish we’d stop talking about the price.

The good news isn’t the price.

The good news is that Bitcoin is going to be more available 💪

I wrote almost the same thing here https://gregwhite.blog/decentralization/

Decentralization matters in places where power accumulate and is abused. Not everywhere.

Only if there would be others that are immortal.

That’s the hope! ❤️

Thanks 😊 any feedback?

Lightbringer by Pierce Brown

Part of the Red Rising series. Awesome sci-fi

I'm a bit of a drivechain noob, but this seems kinda like Liquid Network in that it's federated trust.

It's just via Sentinels as opposed to Liquid's set of ~15 trusted entities.

Is the idea that this strikes a balance between: On the one hand have miners being the authority that can allow illegal peg outs with a 51% attack (like most side chain proposals I've seen), and on the other hand having 15 assigned authorities (like Liquid)?

I think it could be better than other proposals, but I wanna make sure I understand.

Agreed, I think the email model is powerful for nostr but the aggressiveness will be tuned to match the desiers of people on Nostr because of exactly what you're saying.

There's another paradigm for spam control on a decentralized protocol that's been operating for decades: email.

It has its flaws but there are groups that collect spam reports and publish a list of how spammy they think an email address / email sending IP is. And email inboxes subscribe to whatever lists they want to trust (and maybe publish their own!)

I could see that working for Nostr too. Some groups will monitor relays for "report" kind events and make judgemetn calls based on their algorithm of which pubkeys are spammy (or even just tag them as NSFW poster, or "posts only cute dog videos" or any other label that clients and users may want to utilize to filter their feeds.

I think that proof of work and making posts cost money can help a lot! But at the end of the day some spam will be worth the cost if it is able to be effective at scamming.

It may be more work to go with a model like this, but I think it'll preserve censorship resistance of nostr (because you can choose relays that listen to lists you agree with, or none at all); while also giving some measure of filtering power that isn't on every user to make a robust mute list.

I'll definitely be making improvements but thanks for taking the time to look through it!

I think that it can go either way, but for now I think a main site where people can add features to it if they like. I'm planning to do a majority of the work until people find it useful enough they want it improved faster than I can do it.

I agree with you, relays are something we need more focus on as we scale. Can't wait to be of use!