Not sure I can think of a worse piece of legislation than Bill C-18 in #Canada. It tries to force social media and search platforms to pay for linking (URL's) to news content posted on their platform. It forces the news providers and the platforms to negotiate on a price for the links, and if they can't agree, an arbitrator will decide for them. To be clear, we are not talking about posting an entire news article. We are talking 'just' about posting a URL, and often the headline or first paragraph.

Michael Geist

The Bill C-18 Reality: Everyone Loses When the Government Mandates Payments for Links - Michael Geist

The report that Google is conducting a national test that removes links to Canadian news sites for a small percentage of users sparked a predictabl...

Idea: Fiverr but with⚡️

Because of Nostr, I have now set up my own full node using #[0] As of tonight, figured out how to get BTC on to my Lightning Node, opened a channel and just sent some sats to a random note on here. 🤯

Woah, just realized how much better the global feed is when you filter by paid relay.

Just paid my admission to Nostrland

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Welcome to the next generation of paid relays.

Woah, #[0] is on Nostr! Big fan.

Didn’t peg him as a football guy. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1625740705598435328?s=46&t=J3sHRIQtz4qLhEY7jNGKxw

Global feed seems to be pure spam...

Let the regulatory mental gymnastics begin on how to tell #[0] he can’t do this

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BREAKING: Strike now lets businesses instantly send US dollars over the #Bitcoin Lightning Network 🙌

Kinda disappointing if #[0] doesn't have a 'running Nostr' note.

Down an application specific relay rabbit hole #[0] 🤔💡 You could have a relay that hosts your long-form content if you’re a blogger, like a substack or medium writer. You could have a relay that hosts your rating reviews, such as Google Maps, Yelp, IMDB or TripAdvisor. You could have a relay that hosts the subscriptions to different newsletters or paywall blogs you read. You could have a relay that hosts your fantasy football or bets you like to make with friends. Source:

The Bitcoin Manual

5 Types Of Nostr Relays - The Bitcoin Manual

A review of Nostr relays, how they can be used and what the possible future implementations of these relays could be as more people sign into using...

Idea: The Proton Mail of Nostr relays. Most people probably don't care, but business users, brands, human rights orgs, political dissidents etc. would probably pay relay operators a decent amount of sats each year to access their relay if they had clear terms of use and privacy policies. Terms could deal with things like where the relay and operators are located (i.e. where claims are brought), responding to subpoenas, investigations etc.

Quick thoughts on Nostr #privacy The list of relays you connect to are easy to uncover. Just put any user’s pubkey into a client like iris.to and you can see a list of relays they connect to. For example, I can see #[1] (Snowden) connects to wss://relay.damus.io operated by #[2] (infamous William Casarin), and 3 others. Just like plaintiffs lawyers and governments target Twitter with subpoenas and warrants for information on users, they will target relay operators as well. If relay operators have logs of your IP address, you should assume your IP won’t be hard to uncover if a subpoena or warrant is issued to a relay operator. Take that IP to an ISP and it won’t be hard to figure out who you are and/or where you are. If you care about privacy, this means who your relay operator is and where they are located may matter. #[3], operating the Damus relay appears to be in Canada. In theory, anyone could apply to a Canadian court to subpoena information from him. While I am sure Snowden is doing crazy things to hide any IP from his relays, the point is, the average, person isn’t; whether it’s a human rights organization, trucker convoy or dissident. Not to be a party pooper, but just some thoughts for people who may be using Nostr for something other than Midjourney digital art ostrich pictures. My latest favourite: https://www.nostrland.com/r/give-me-your-nostriches

Dalle-2 refining the ostriches: