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In the context of #bitcoin #nostr, I've come to really dislike the phrase "we're so early". It comes off as buzzwordy to me, especially when one of those projects has been around for over a decade.

I really dislike the idea of nostr trying to become the everything app because it feels like instead of just reinventing the wheel, devs are trying to reinvent the whole damn car and I think that is just unnecessary. I think if we strip nostr down to what its original purpose was supposed to be, a Twitter alternative, It worked perfectly fine. Relays were relatively simple to deploy, and clients only needed to do so much. But now we have people wanting nostr to do everything, and things aren't as simple. People are gonna say, "Well clients don't have to implement everything." That may be true on paper, but in practice, the majority effectively dictates what's required. Videos, torrents, streams, a reddit alternative, etc. don't belong on nostr in my opinion. Those should be spun off into independent projects. Things like relay-specific notes end up siloing discussion topics and ultimately make them no better than fediverse instances. I'm not a developer, nor am I a software engineer, but it looks to me that nostr has failed to be simple. But I'm just a single, imperfect, person. — This is a comment on:

Yakihonne

Square peg, round hole

A brief ramble on where the protocol is going, and how we might use it more effectively.

Take a look at this #coinjoin transaction and tell me what you see. #asknostr I bet most of you see privacy. But me? I see #bitcoin scaling. How? More efficient transactions mean more transactions per block, and mean more throughput. Couple that with Bitcoiners actually having a little faith and trust in Bitcoin as a technology meaning people feel comfortable doing conformation-less transacting in the real world and Bitcoin is off to the moon.

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Most #bitcoin enthusiasts forget that any traditional transactions outside of cash are not as instant as they believe! They take hours and sometimes days to actually settle! When you write a check or use your credit card the entity you are paying isn't getting their money instantly. Why is Bitcoin treated differently? Why is it considered slow when it only takes as little as 10 minutes for payments to be settled?

The way I see it, a #bitcoin transaction in the mempool is good enough as payment for most goods and services.

Also, I think there is too much emphasis on the "number of transactions per second" #bitcoin can do. Every form of payment has a period of time in a transaction in which a party is missing funds until said transaction settles. The reason credit cards seem to be able to handle a high number of transactions per second is because a third party aka the credit card company, is the one missing funds in the transaction and not either of the transacting parties. If we are putting enough trust in other forms of payments that these vacuums of funds can exist, why can't we put that same level of trust into Bitcoin and transact without confirmation? Well, at least when it comes to transacting for goods and services.

Native multi-party-in and multi-party-out transactions scale #bitcoin so hard!

I really, really like @npub189j8...3tg8, but there are one main thing that's really stopping me from switching to it and that is the lack of a global feed. And it really isn't because I want to actually view a global feed but it's nice to be able to search that firehose and not just follows. Useful for when I want to see what nostr as a "whole" are saying about a given keyword or hashtag. Any chance you might add a global feed @npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c?

Giving the #nostr relay tray by @Cody a try. Hopefully this write test works.

Fun fact: I own no on-chain #bitcoin and only have 3,433 sats in #lightning

Here's a #controversial opinion: #nostr is not the be-all, end-all when it comes to big tech replacements, nor should it be! When I first joined the nostr ecosystem, it was just a simple well-thought-out Twitter replacement. But developers seem so obsessed with creating "The next big thing! ™" that in the eight months that I've been here I've seen a Reddit clone get tacked on, a Wikipedia clone get tacked on, a Youtube replacement get tacked on, an Instagram replacement get tacked on, a Twitch replacement tacked on, a few attempts to tack on a Patreon-like replacement, a few more things being tacked on that I can't remember off the top of my head, and now I'm seeing people calling for WebMD-like thing to be tacked on. Not to mention all the NIP bloat needed to support this nonsense. I look at my password manager and see roughly 30-35 accounts that I have used regularly in the last 6 months. Could all those be condensed into a single public key if everything was built on nostr? Absolutely! Do I want that? Abso-fucking-lutely not! That is 30-35 identities that are compartmentalized and segregated from each other. One does not consciously know about the other, so to speak. This is one thing ActivityPub services get right! While yes, a user is siloed into a single instance of a given service, different services are effectively segregated from each other by means of average user ability. The average Mastodon user isn't going to know that they can follow a Lemmy post or a PeerTube channel from Mastodon, let alone even know how to do that. So I implore devs to take a step back, and instead of needlessly reinventing the wheel here on nostr, find an open-source project that already exists and does what you want and help improve it.

Any way to mass-mute/block all @mostr.pub accounts? I'm trying to see if there's any discussion on some topics on nostr and the mostr bridge has completely polluted the results. #asknostr

Don't get #sick folks!

Test 2, just to be safe.

Now that I'm using the nos.social relay, let's see how quickly this gets cross-posted.

I started thinking again about the question @PABLOF7z asked a few weeks ago of "If nostr was completely dead in 10, years what killed it?" and after reading a blog post from a new user that @fiatjaf had made a post about, another reason dawned on me. An identity crisis. And it takes the form of there being difficulty in trying to describe what nostr even is. Because at this point we have Twitter alternatives, we have blogging sites, we have Reddit alternatives, we have Twitch alternatives, and we have Spotify alternatives. I've seen nostr "marketed" for the most part as *just* a Twitter alternative, but it's so much more. So how the heck do we solve this? People like @rabble have talked about hiding the more technical complexities of nostr behind more user-friendly solutions. The same can be done with the fact that nostr is a protocol. What do I mean by that? Clients should lean into the idea that they are filling a distinct role and are wholly independent of any other client. Pair that with the idea of NOT giving people a choice of clients when introducing people to nostr. I know it sounds crazy and counter to what you might want to do, but the way I see it is the less there is to choose from in the beginning the less confusing it'll be. Figure out what ecosystem they're coming from, ie. Twitter, etc., and what their primary device will be. Then tell them to use whatever client you use if you're using the same kind of device, or the most popular client for their device if not. After that let them explore, discover, and answer any questions they might have.

I never thought that I would be reading a #manga called "My Dick is a Cute Girl" yet here I am 15 chapters in. Weirdly wholesome though, given that this is euphemism city.

Now that I finally got tweeter.nos.social to finally work, let's see if I can actually crosspost between nostr and X.