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321 sats \ 6 replies \ @fiatjaf 18 Feb \ on: i have an npub. how am i supposed to find the relay? nostr

I have a Bitcoin node, how do I find other Bitcoin nodes to fetch blocks from?

Conclusion: Bitcoin is centralized.

390 sats \ 4 replies \ @anon 18 Feb

https://x.com/peterktodd/status/1759151430336737645 cc @petertodd

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @premitive1 18 Feb

that's a fellow arguing for tail-emissions, right?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 18 Feb

Is this all that @petertodd is to you?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 18 Feb

for a shit post like this, yes.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @basantagoswami 18 Feb freebie

yes

380 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 18 Feb

I believe the difference is that it's more about fetching blocks and less which bitcoin nodes you connect to.

If I run a new bitcoin node, I can be pretty sure that my node have the same view (shared reality) as everyone else on the bitcoin network. Thanks to PoW, my node can just follow the chain with the most PoW in it as long as my node "randomly enough" connect to nodes.

On nostr, to which relays I connect to is important to have "shared realities" with others, no? I can't just randomly connect to relays and think my view is the same as everyone else on nostr, no?

So I think OP is more concerned about censorship resistance than centralization since yes, Bitcoin Core includes DNS seeds.