Hard to imagine these sites are "independent". Why would they be? They have the power to form a narrative, and that is valuable. If there is value, it can be paid for.
Consider "journalism". Your first lesson in journalism school is to journal. ie who what why where when? But instead of recording the narrative, they now form the narrative. One of the only true jouranalists that told the truth, wikileaks, had its leader put in jail.
You have to imagine the pollsters and prediction sites are similar. Prediction markets are a bit harder to game because of the liquidity. But at this scale they have alot of margin, and its not as liquid as sports finals.
I'm not saying that everything is rigged. But I am saying that there is alot of rigging going on, and assuming independence is not a rational starting position.
btw right leaning people i know (e.g. pro gamblers) groan when they see nate silver's name
I am more impartial on it. I've followed that site for a while. Could not really evaluate their methodology.
BUT on the night of 2016 elections, which I did follow all markets, including prediction and 538, their models fell apart, and were just completely wrong. Pro dem in that case. So mathematically I think they have some problems.
HTTP access codes control access
401 - not allowed, i dont know who you are
402 - payment is required
403 - i know who you are but you cant access
Encryption is optional, same as nostr.
Nostr's identity system is bitcoin taproot. It comes with a built-in distributed ledger, time chain, payments and smart contracting features. To date devs have yet to look into this, but if explored it can become a competitive advantage.
It's just a http sub protocol (websockets) that relays signed notes, and other stuff, from one user to another. You can go deeper on the identity side which is bitcoin taproot, that comes with a built in distributed ledger, time chain, and smart contracting sytem (that no one uses). The websockets are for realtime updates. The data is a text string with meta data, which just about works, but is decades behind the state of the art. Best thing to explore is the identity part.
Any DB is fine. Nostr content is just a text string. And some text meta data.
Depends on your use case really. mongo should be a decent choice. sqlite for small things.
Nostr should not be used as a database, but everyone does is. Because it's convenient. But you end up hitting walls. Like no real indexes, or query language, no ability to do large follow lists, AND/OR facilities, joins, secondary keys, composite indexes etc.
You might want to have a look at #ditto which is the first relay to have a modern database. Nostr as a DB is 50 year old technology.
#ditto has multiple clients including nostr and mastodon clients
You, dont have to use ditto, you can build your own. But ditto is the only solution that has been largely accepted, welcomed, and funded by the community.
You are welcome to make your own solutions But, those are all hard things to achieve and took a lot of work. You have to figure out whether you want to do that work, and take the (quite high) risk that your solution is rejected by the community. Most things are, because there's a rule of having only one way of doing things.
I agree modularity is a good thing. All depends how much work you want to put in, whether you want to reuse or recreate a solution, and what your use cases are. For myself, I've gone the modular path, and will reuse ditto as a component in a bigger picture.
Technically it is easy to add. The harder part is getting people to agree. And agree on a solution that scales. Http managed to get all of that in its early design. 99% of other protocols dont, and remain niche.
Nostr relays notes, and others stuff, from one user to another. It's not a massive discovery engine. It it were google and every other search engine, would have indexed it long ago. Let nostr be nostr.
The great thing about Bitcoin is that it gives you the freedom to use it however you want.
Now, someone might argue: "If someone else uses Bitcoin differently than I prefer, it affects me."
But the simple response to that is: 1 BTC = 1 BTC, regardless of how someone else uses it.
Was very vibrant 12-18 months ago. We used to have an account called "Nostr Report" that used to show case 3-6 (sometimes more) innovations every day.
Now it's quite hard to find even one. I normally trawl through this site here and pop anything interesting on r nostr. But its increasingly difficult to find interesting stuff. Other projects invest in their devX and it pays off. Nostr didnt. Though Nostr still has quite a few payroll devs thanks to the amazing generosity of jack.
https://oddbean.com/
This paper presents our research towards a near-term future in which legal entities, such as individuals and organisations can entrust semi-autonomous AI-driven agents to carry out online interactions on their behalf.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.04465
Nice article. I learnt stuff. Glad opensats supports nostr build. 69k sats for 10gb is pricey, but the convenience of a professional service probably worth it for most. I could probably offer solid or nosdav smart storage for this price too.
He's challenging Nvidia for the most successful tech company in the world. As he gets bigger, he gets attacked more, particularly by shit coiners, and fake bitcoiners. They want to deflect from the extremely positive news about his bitcoin strategy with anything they can. He is aiming to become a trillion dollar company. Be suspicious of any troll that ad hominems him.
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