This is precisely why we need competent people to analyze Nostr's centralization story properly. More relays is irrelevant with the current protocol.
Enki's avatar Enki
Lol yeah at least for now. There are over a thousand relays. I wonder how many of those are actually getting used regularly.
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I need funding for that and haven't been able to get it.
Peter Todd's avatar Peter Todd
Re: the OpenTimestamps grant request, the problem is right now while the protocol scales in theory, the backend does not. It would be quite easy for a bad actor to DoS attack OpenTimestamps out of existence because I simply can't throw servers at the problem: the backend code just doesn't scale. I need funding to put in a bunch of hours to fix this. So far, no luck in finding that; OpenSats is one of a few sources I've tried. Frankly, I suspect that there isn't actually much interest in time-stamping.
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Have you applied to spiral? If you need eyes to proofread a grant application I'm up for it.