Has anyone noticed some unusual lagging in nostr lately?

This is like jailing a weapon manufacturer instead of the murderer

The huge sense of freedom within both the Blockchain and nostr can be a bit overwhelming sometimes in the fact that this freedom is used for illegal activities, to hide obscure businesses, or any sort of criminal planning. There's been a lot of hype about the inevitable need of forking Bitcoin, and the risk this would bring to stackers. But this cannot take us back to a centralized auditing instance. No way. That would destroy the very essence and motivation of a decentralized system. Perhaps we should think of some sort of a social badge, maybe by a new NIP, with a neutral color, zero by default, which could get gradually warmer by adding negative votes, and colder with positive votes. It would be like zaps, but for reputation. I know this sort of ideas would bring me a bunch of red votes, but sorry I can't stop thinking around this purple and orange pills, I can't get rid of this mind-blowing new paradigm, and about all the actual, and potential goodness enclosed. I personally understand there's nothing illegal in decentralized communication as a system. Same with decentralized value management, it should be compatible with honest taxing, and legal business. The big thing is who we trust, an institution, a business owner, a central bank, the whole society? The bigger the decision group, is necessarily better? It is a fact that one protocol came from Satoshi (whoever it may be), and the other from @fiatjaf. We trust them because they open sourced, and therefore we believe the code is a social heritage. But all this is beyond the code, it's a whole new mindset, a treasure we want to preserve and polish, and since it's connected with real value, it's the closest to a dream come true.

If we agree that the last resort, or perhaps the critical point, in decentralized communication is staying connected in an eventual failure of Internet, then we should make sure nostr works on an alternative mesh, such as the reticulum network. I've seen a couple bridging projects on GitHub, but as usual, everything feels so alpha...

There's very few things left to make you feel truly free. Besides driving through the woods on a driveway, or going off-road on plane mode. One way is avoiding platforms -- i.e. using @yakihonne. The other is hodling your crypto #nostr #rawyakihonne

Not sure if Nostr is the best decentralized multipurpose protocol out there, not sure if it will some day become mainstream and will serve for other content besides crypto and sovereignty, but there's a long way done and still a long way to do. Keep it up #plebs!

Interesting point of view. Scaring scenario, but surprisingly the fact is it seems like all this is not leading to any misuse. Still not widely spread, and used for an internal reflection on crypto and sovereign procedures, altogether exciting and promising. View article →

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Open source, text based, simple tools, is what democracy is about #plebs View article →

The real value of Blockchain-integrated content publishing. What is needed to turn this into a widespread standard, a real replacement of Twitter+Medium+Patreon, I don't know View article →

Just checking about #plebchain unwritten rules. After one receives the courtesy zap, is he/she supposed or expected to zap back the same amount?

Everything feels so beta or experimental between nostr & lightning. I keep testing apps, and mostly all ended up in the trash. I just managed to complete some zaps using Amethyst and Phoenix wallet, and I feel like I found the very single tiny clear spot in this huge dark unfinished maze.

"Why didn't I just grab some BTC back in 2009? I was this close to 10 buck worth, just for fun! Why?" You've all had this obsessive thought sometime, haven't you? #plebchain #bitcoin