Gonna say it, Snort's doing great! Their Global has a thing where you can browse by relay... it's fun "surfing the channels!" I think in the future, different communities will have different relays, where people might have their own slang and culture. For now, it's more random. GIgi is on wine, I figured the damus relay would be cool, but it's feed is dominated by the Cowdle (wordle) game, lol.

Many paying for data by the GB in the Global South might have trouble with the datause of Nostr. I was thinking, for Nostr relays in Africa, when the message is sent, it goes to a random relay the user connects to and then the relay gossips. This would be better than the messages all going to the same one, which would be quite the attack vector.

Rollkit Sovereign Rollup on Bitcoin Announcement Twitter Thread *** So, this seems really huge. I was under the impression that this wasn't possible on Bitcoin without softforks. It seems someone realized it was possible because of inscriptions (meaning putting dickbutt jpegs on the blockchain WASN'T the killer app?) anyway here is the full Twitter Thread (minus pics, but all links included) announcement for people staying off Twitter. If you just wanna see the Twitter Thread, go here: https://twitter.com/RollkitDev/status/1632438374513676288. *** You can now run a sovereign rollup on Bitcoin. Announcing the first research integration of Bitcoin as a data availability layer for sovereign rollups. https://rollkit.dev/blog/sovereign-rollups-on-bitcoin/ Rollkit is a modular framework for rollups that provides interfaces for plugging in different components, like data availability layers. The newest addition is an early research implementation of a module that allows a Rollkit rollup to use Bitcoin for data availability. Our demo features a Rollkit EVM sovereign rollup running on top of a local Bitcoin testnet. Check it out below and follow along if you’re interested in experimenting with your own Bitcoin sovereign rollup! ( Rollkit: Ethermint + Bitcoin DA Demo YouTube video) This new integration expands the possibilities for rollups, and also has the potential to help bootstrap a healthy blockspace fee market on Bitcoin, enabling a more sustainable security budget. How did we do it? 💡 Ordinals showed us it was possible to publish arbitrary data to Bitcoin. We saw this and decided to follow a similar process. At its core, all that was needed was two functions: one to submit rollup blocks, and another to retrieve them. To write and read data on Bitcoin, we use Taproot transactions. The new `bitcoin-da`package provides the necessary reader/writer interface to Bitcoin. The package can be re-used by any project that wants to read/write data on Bitcoin

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Next, we made the ‘bitcoin-da’ package satisfy our `DataAvailabilityLayerClient` interface, which defines the client behavior and how block syncing works. Finally, we implemented the `SubmitBlock` and `RetrieveBlocks` functions for Rollkit to read and write data to Bitcoin. For a more detailed look at the integration, read the blog post and follow along with the corresponding tutorial. 📑 Blog: https://Rollkit.dev/blog/sovereign-rollups-on-bitcoin/ Tutorial: 👇 https://rollkit.dev/docs/tutorials/bitcoin/ To learn more about the theory of using Bitcoin as a data availability layer for sovereign rollups, check out this thread by @lightcoin (

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So "pubkeys writing events" is largely spam, the blue or red lines are closer to "real" users. However, look how many do not have LNURLS enabled. Considering everyone I know does, my guess is it's Asian users who are using it for free speech who haven't (yet) been orange-pilled. Anyone speak Chinese?

Is tagging by name working for anyone else on Amethyst?

The badges site is a great example of "microapps." Jack was saying this is the way to go. The guest on the last episode of Nostrovia said something similar. More 'focused' microapps, vs full Twitter clones clients.

The Grassy Knoll-ster Perhaps in the future there will be a dedicated relay to talking about the Kennedy assassination. Why it comes to mind is two-fold. Firstly, the pun. Nostr, Knoll-ster, very good. Also, this was something I used to read about in the late nineties online. Classic conspiracy stuff. And Nostr is giving me all the early internet vibes. I would love to attract that group of people, the early internet users, I think they would love Nostr.

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