GM, checking into #nostr after a few days offline, and I have 50% new followers out of nowhere - have the bots arrived in full force? 🧐

Really, one "GM" should suffice

If #Bitcoin is the future, we can't have it be transacted mainly through captured devices. Much more freedom tech is required, especially a mobile phone (hardware + software) that doesn't require a PhD to set up

When money won't be able to be insidiously confiscated through inflation, the hope I've heard people express is that governments will curb their expenditures, because taxation is much more visible and highly unpopular. Somewhat agree, but the past few years have shown us that governments are perfectly comfortable carrying out unpopular measures, and the hungry apparatus will likely seek to replace the lost funding through high taxation.

I like the 'Explore' options on @primal, would be great if there was an option to build more custom feeds, such as with a union operator. For example, I would like to have a feed containing both "latest, my follows" and "trending, my network" . @`miljan`

How can we avoid the "good times create weak men" turning next time around? #asknostr

"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing." "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" Alice is a Bitcoiner, the Red Queen is Chair of the Fed #Bitcoin #nostrbookclub

Have you ever witnessed a kangaroo court proceeding first hand? #asknostr

Today's #nostr idea: Notification-only relays If we think about the ultimate decentralized version of Nostr, it would be that everyone runs their own relay to host their own notes. That would pose a scaling issue, because if you follow 1000 npubs, you have to check 1000 relays to stay up to date. What if we had some shared relays (notification-only relays), containing only notifications that an npub has posted something, but not the content. So it's just a signal that if you are following them you should go get the new stuff from their personal relay. Running such a notification-only shared relay would have a much lower liability than running a "full" shared relay, because you don't host actual content, and you would also have reduced storage requirements because no content. Apologies if this is a dumb idea, just throwing this out there #asknostr #nostrdev @fiatjaf @jb55 @Vitor Pamplona @semisol @miljan

Stupid question: why is there no decentralized version of Uber yet?

In #Bitcoin, the sum of mining rewards over 4 years is the same as the sum of all mining rewards ever after. Think about that...