As a replacement for “Bitcoin Twitter” Nostr is already good enough and will likely keep being so. If it grows too much too fast into something more general (not looking like that at the moment) people like jb55 will likely be able to keep a few relays working. That said, I lived without Bitcoin Twitter for 2 years and it made my life much better.

Should I be worried the person I zapped might live in a sanctioned country?

Tried to find out how LN tips work on BirdSite. Found a FAQ and stopped reading after two boring paragraphs No wonder nobody uses it

Gotta send #[0] some zaps. Guy is getting poor real fast here.

Gotta send npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m some zaps Guy’s getting poor real fast here.

Unfollowed myself. I can still see myself in the lost of my followers. But now I have the option of following myself back. Losing track of reality

What happens if spend like $1,000 zapping people for following me. Do I become like a Nostr-god or do I get followed by 1M bots? Any bets?

I’m playing with changing relays, and what that makes to timeline and followers. Weird stuff

Using Nostr for a few says made me realize I don’t want a censorship resistant alternative social media. Social media sucks. The best thing to happen to me was being kicked out of Twitter. My life got a lot better. I want a censorship resistant alternative to find information and connect to people — and that is completely different from social media. Twitter was kinda good when it was just microblogging without all the “social” crap. Maybe I’ll make a Nostr client that only shows posts. No likes. No “boosts”. No followers. Maybe bios. And doesn’t let you interact with other peoples notes either. Then we can work from there.

You could use Bitcoin OP_RETURN to store censorship resistant, global broadcast messages. It has *many* disadvantages, and I don’t recommend doing that for most use cases. But the fact that you can is proof by construction that it is possible to have a censorship-resistant global broadcast network, that is completely trustless, and fair — in the sense that everyone has a shot at broadcasting a message proportional to resources spent. In fact if you remove individual transactions and treat each block as a message, it is quite perfectly fair and very hard to censor — as long as there’s a honest majority of hash rate. “But it doesn’t scale!l” yes it doesn’t scale very well — but even at one message every ten minutes, a PoW chain of messages would already offer a lot of value. But the main problem of scale here is that a PoW chain or “blockchain” was designed to offer a number of guarantees that are really expensive but essential for financial use cases. Namely: strict immutable ordering, retaining records for indeterminate amounts of time, not having any liveness assumptions. Those aren’t needed for broadcast communication in general. It is my belief that other data structures are possible that preserve important properties of “blockchains” while being cheaper and obtaining higher bandwidth by giving up guarantees that aren’t relevant. In the near future I will publish one, after working a bit more on a PoC . I want to be sure it works first.