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lcn_8888 2 weeks ago
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lcn_8888 2 weeks ago
# Liquid Hack Update — Message from Pablo Greco > **Message from Pablo Greco** — Telegram admin and Blockstream employee, > regarding the Liquid hack update: --- Did some message cleanup, and here's the summary: 1. **The day of the hack was the second worst day of my life** (after the day my Mom died), which should put things in perspective. 2. **Anyone who truly thinks that Adam (or anyone at Blockstream) has anything to do with the hack** shows one of the 3 letters of what I call the **"SIM"**: - **S**tupid — doesn't have the ability to understand - **I**gnorant — has the ability, but lacks information - **M**alicious — has the ability and the information, but chooses to ignore it 3. **There are a lot of people (inside and outside of Blockstream)** working not only on restoring the peg, but also on improving the security of Liquid for everybody. --- We're all hoping to have news about the timeline soon, but as I said before, **the peg will be returned — and that's not even a question.** And just to reiterate: it has **nothing to do** with the hacker returning the funds. So please, if someone wants to start name calling again, I kindly suggest to **STFU** or you will be banned. Now I'd like to go back and have lunch with my family in peace. **Have a nice Sunday.** 🙂
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lcn_8888 3 weeks ago
# Why Den Chat Runs on Nostr — Freedom Comes With Responsibility ## The Core Trade-Off > **Either we rent or self-host a Nostr/Blossom server, or our chatting > history and/or other things (media, pins, packs, etc.) might randomly > get wiped.** This is why I made it so that people's events get published to multiple public servers — and I've now increased the default from **3 to 6** — as well as added more robust checking that those servers actually work, plus periodic checks to inform you if something is wrong with one of the public servers you might be using. ## The Residual Risk of Public Servers However, the potential threat of public servers randomly deleting data, or shutting down, is real — for whatever reason: - The operator died - They ran out of money - They're deleting old data to keep the relay running for new data - They might just be bad people That's why this freedom system — the highest level of social online freedom there is, as far as I'm aware (**Nostr**) — comes with a **responsibility**: people must make sure their own stuff is properly well-distributed and backed up (offline, for later re-distribution or self-hosting). ## "Well, This Sucks" — You're Right, But It's Still the Best Freedom Option Take any other Discord alternative out there, one that's open source, with either a hosted option alongside self-hosting, or self-hosting only. As a new user, how would their experience be? ### Option 1: The hosted "freedom" alternative They join, make a community space on the company's servers, and land right back into the same core issues with Discord: - The host can **modify or delete** your account, messages, or community spaces without your permission - They can **spy on your conversations** (unless there's encryption AND it's open source) - They can **coerce you** into providing personal/legal information — or anything else — under threat of restricting or suspending your account - If they go **bankrupt or shut down**, everyone's accounts, spaces, and chats go with them ### Option 2: The self-hosting route The user must first figure out how to set everything up and spend time doing it — **all before they can do anything** — and only then invite friends and start chatting. For people who just want to *join* spaces without creating one: they can make an account on your self-host/site and join in. But: - They're under **your centralized authority**, facing the same potential core issues from Option 1 - Plus a new problem: they need to **register on another friend's self-host/site** and log in — a constant, never-ending run of registering and logging in/out just to talk with different friends/communities ## Now Look at Den Chat 1. Click a button to make an account (installed version) 2. Click another button to make a hub 3. Invite friends — you're chatting within the first 5 minutes (maybe less if someone wants to speedrun it) - **No self-hosting required** to make a space/hub - **One account everywhere** — anyone who makes a hub means you never have to create a new account and log in/out repeatedly to talk with different friends - **No account deletion** — the creators of Den Chat, nor the owners of self-hosted Nostr relays/Blossom servers, can delete people's accounts - **No coercion** — nobody can force people to hand over private/legal info under threat of account restriction or suspension - **No eavesdropping** — nobody can listen in on private conversations, because it's open source and encrypted - **No kill switch** — if the creators of Den Chat shut down as a company (hypothetically — there isn't one) or abandon the project and turn off their own servers, people's accounts still exist: they can still post, see their hubs and messages, and the app/client still works. Everything remains operational ### The Only Downside If a hub owner wants a **guarantee** that their hub's messages continue to exist, then they — or even other members; it doesn't have to be the creator/owner of the hub — need to guarantee that themselves by **running their own Nostr relay/Blossom server** for their hubs. --- **TL;DR:** This is the value of Den Chat that no other non-Nostr Discord alternative provides (as far as I know) in the market right now. source: degmods on web . denchat. top image
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