This is a nice comparison of AT Protocol relays, Bluesky currently process approximately 200-300 events per second

compare hoses

Nostr could grow, but growing means losing what makes it valuable to the people already there. Mass adoption brings the same problems they left Twitter and Facebook to escape - performative posting, algorithm gaming, superficial interactions. They'd rather have 100 real connections than 10,000 followers who don't care. They chose authenticity over scale, quality over quantity, honest conversations over viral reach. That's why Nostr will never go mainstream. View quoted note →

Thanks to proxmox I can comfortably play with dappnode, lets start with reth+lighthouse, then I will add aztec sequencer I used to manage full nodes myself (I run ethereum, bitcoin, monero nodes, etc.), but maybe it's time for some pragmatic abstraction.. Good is that dappnode takes package signing and security pretty seriously

Take full control. Run your own node.

ethereum.org

How to Run an Ethereum Node

An introduction on what, why, and how to run an Ethereum node.

yeahh

21 million cap as a self-destruct fuse? View quoted note →

The Security Budget issue and how the Bitcoin community approaches it is a mystery to me. When I started with Bitcoin, whenever I didn't understand something, there was always some logical explanation. I just had to re-read the whitepaper, study the code, understand the Austrian school of economics, etc. Bitcoin taught me that "code is law" and predictability is its greatest strength. But then I came across this Security Budget problem. Bitcoin's security costs billions annually, paid through block subsidy. The code says this subsidy goes to zero. The plan is fees will replace it. But after 15 years, fees cover only 0.5-1% of the security budget. I went looking for the explanation. I re-read the whitepaper - nothing. I studied the economics - the math doesn't work. I asked the community - and encountered something I'd never seen before: pure cognitive dissonance and zero logical answers. "You're spreading FUD." "Security budget doesn't exist." "Miners aren't CREATING coins, they're RELEASING them." "That's not a problem at all." This was the first really serious cognitive dissonance I encountered in the Bitcoin community. It forced me to think: do I want to stay in a community where identity matters more than truth?

I'm trying Proxmox on my older Intel NUC and it works nicely. It's great to run HaOS (Home Assistant) & FreeBSD virtual machine and Ubuntu LXC container on one machine

something bitcoiners won't tell you Bitcoin's security model literally depends on continuously diluting your holdings. Every 10 minutes, someone creates new bitcoin out of thin air to pay the guards protecting your "sound money" View quoted note →

The uncomfortable truth: Bitcoin surviving only thanks to inflation of its money supply Without printing new bitcoins, it would have no security

If you think people will suddenly care about censorship-resistance when they arrive on Nostr, you're delusional. They don't care now, they won't care then, and the protocol can't make them care. Culture eats architecture for breakfast.