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Jor | 21 days ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +1 
 What if nostr had a halving like bitcoin?

A crazy thought experiment

(And I know it'll probably never happen - for a variety of reasons - but still fun to think about)

What if nostr following the same code as bitcoin and half the npubs got cut in half every four years?

The bottom 50% of activity gets snipped

Making npubs scarce and valuable

Imagine a scarce communication layer combined with a scarce money layer

Scarcity creates abundance
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TheWildHustle | 21 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 People would be posting garbage just to keep their account from being deleted. 

It would mean nostr is censorship resistant, as long as you post frequently, if not nostr deletes your account......which is hilarious btw.
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reltbracco | 21 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The bots would be king
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Thekid .999 | 21 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Wait untill degens start selling nsecs
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TBH | 21 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 With all due respect, that’s retarded.  GN.
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Jor | 21 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Haha yeah it is
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Nic | 21 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah, that'll be a no from me friend.
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Bee Aye | 21 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 lol, one could create such a relay i suppose with  whitelisting rules. a hunger games relay.
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KenLazer | 21 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 We would need to create new npubs every 10 minute, right?
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Stack_Jarrow | 21 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Perhaps a similar effect to the halving could take place albeit with the proliferation of what this protocol is used for, and in the opposite way, it will become more and more widespread. Obviously it’s different in many ways to blockchain and mining doesn’t have to take place in order for this protocol to work, but  I  must admit I haven’t studied it in depth but from things I have heard on podcasts and YouTube videos it’s kind of one potential future layer of the internet that’s much more decentralized. So in one boat we have our decentralized hard money, and in another we have a communications protocol that can be utilized for everything from social media as it is now to even medical records systems that will compete with the monopolized electronic medical record formats. Bit of a complex subject but I think the potential lies in it being utilized to build a more sovereign internet layer with free market versions of any website people utilize regularly. A NOSTR version of Ebay, a NOSTR version of your favorite news website. ( I don’t know much but that’s kind of what I’ve picked up by listening to some podcasts). With the ability to run a relay on off the shelf easily available hardware it will be easy to disrupt  some of the monopolies out there.