Musk likes to do something unexpected. He likes attention more than profit or common sense... That volume is small to be Black Swan for markets, but psychologically this will of course affect the mood of investors. Anyway if he decides to swap bitcoin for doge it will be (literally) the meme of the year
Best UI in my opinion. It's exactly a chat, not another Nostr client with DM. Devs are active replying if there's some problems. 0xChat sometimes laggy, but I hope it will be better when out of beta. Don't know if there will ever be audit of security/privacy of messaging and calls, will see. 7,5 of 10.
Make your own relay, that nobody can write to or even read if you want. What you talking about is not leakage - if you broadcast something to open relays, often events are distributing to other relays. Relays do this on purpose, for maximum coverage. If you want to store your events only on specific relay, make your own. But why do you need it?
I don't think Nostr is for you. It's about public in the first place - even default DMs, reactions, other interactions with npubs and views are public. npub is about public, why you trying to make it private with someone else's relays?
I noticed that Primal removes a lot of replies. Relays are the same in two clients, but Primal shows less comments to same note. More fun (or sad) that 0xChat sometimes "losing" messages. In group chat one can see 3 messages, on another npub in the same chat there's 2 messages. That's a protocol issue, I think.
To be honest, I noticed this only once: from two phones of different npubs, the contents of the open group were different - one showed 3 messages, the other - 2. Moreover, these were messages from one person - it was your answers to questions of users in the open group. And one of them was not delivered. The difference between the two devices was in the connection - each had its own network and possibly VPN or Tor.
There are two points of view on the market dynamics: some say that an overly bullish September is a harbinger of disaster and are waiting for a Black Swan event, while others say that after a green September there are historically 3 months of growth. I think the factor of disbelief inherent in bull markets plays a role here. I think a green 4th quarter is still more likely, but volatility will be severe.
#uptober #LFG
Algorithms in socila media are considered harmful. But when you're a little busy and can only access social networks a couple of times a day, #Primal's selections are quite suitable. You look at 24-hour trends, 4-hour most zapped, #Nostr highlights, your subscription feed, and that's it, you don't have to come back until the next day and you know what is going on in Nostr.
In Amethyst I can see my 0xchat's. I think your client must support NIP-44 to receive gift-wrapped messages from any other client.
"Gift-Wrapped DM is default and recommended DM type for 0xChat. By using Gift-Wrapped for event messages, it minimizes metadata leakage. Not only is the message content encrypted, but the sender and the timestamp are also concealed. Moreover, the encryption algorithm employed is the latest audited NIP-44 algorithm".
There's not much of free relays for DMs . Not all clients support specific DM relay setting. Anyway I believe most of us using free DM relays like auth.nostr1.com. 0xChat have it's own relay.0xchat.com (you can add it to your client easily). From my 0xChat app: "If not set, [DMs] will be sent to the general relay by default".
Once I installed Amethyst on my phone, it took up >1Gb of storage. It turns out that it also eats up traffic like hell. I understand that this is due to the architecture of the protocol, but still it is too much. No, thanks, I'll stay on web app (Primal at the moment).
It is not private if you use major CEXs to buy it. In fact, there are exchanges that do not require the KYC procedure for registration - only an email/phone number.
But as a rule, those who talk about the possibility of bitcoin remaining an untraceable currency, usually do not consider exchanges as a way to buy bitcoin. Usually they are talking about P2P transactions and offline deals. In many countries (for example, in Turkey), there are street exchangers where you can exchange bitcoin or more often USDt for euros/US dollars and vice versa, and no one asks for ID. Such exchangers are in many countries, including the bitcoin ATMs you mention.
In addition, even having a registered account on one of the centralized exchanges, you can buy bitcoin and run it through a mixer, hiding the final address of the wallet owner. You can use the so-called decentralized exchanges, where you can exchange the cryptocurrency purchased somewhere else for bitcoin and, again, run it through a mixer, and then hide it in your secret wallet.
The path of a true bitcoiner also requires a secret computer with installed bitcoin and LN nodes, which is connected to the network via the darknet, and all transactions are signed by some fashionable hardware wallet like Coldcard.
IG, TikTok, Youtube and others are corporation's property. Nostr is not social media, it is open protocol, it doen't need business model. It will live if it needed, it will die if it not.
Yes, but for now Nostr users are specific audience. Even Wallet of Satoshi stopped its Nostr account due to low engagement I guess and (maybe) criticism from hardcore bitcoiners. Although by gaining popularity in the local environment it was possible to add users and earn additional money on commissions from transferring zaps.
Also lately I haven't heard about ZBD service, which tried to monetize access to nostr as "ZBD universe" or something like that. They have their own app with Lightning Network and at some point they attracted a lot of people by providing them with wallets and giving satoshi for playing games and watching ads (I don't know exactly how it worked and if it still works). And at some point they started attracting experienced users by giving them access to publishing posts for money, i.e. they tried to present Nostr as something exciting and profitable. I don't know how they've been doing since then, but it doesn't look like they've been successful.
Open source projects are not necessarily intended to be potentially profitable. When a protocol or other software product is in demand, then developers make money by adapting such a protocol for the most popular type of use. For example, Bitcoin. Or Linux. Or XMPP/Jabber. Or Apache, nginx (not quite open source, but still). And many, many others. I think Nostr will be fine.
That is so stupid. How do you know exactly, what it costs? Why would you compare bitcoin with other commodities? Any decentralized system is self-regulating, and if at some point mining becomes unprofitable, the network power drops to levels acceptable to miners. Oil and gold production are regulated by cartels and the price and demand for them are artificially stimulated.
https://m.primal.net/LALb.png
They did not ban gold (or its adoption). They took control of its mining, banned the free circulation of nuggets and bars, forced all jewelry to be branded and declared. In the case of Bitcoin, the attack vector may be aimed at self-storage and banning self-custody wallets. There have been attempts and there will be more, but they are unlikely to ban Bitcoin (or its adoption) - they want to control it.
On the other hand, all the remaining bitcoin will be mined for over a hundred years. If we imagine that the price of it will grow exponentially, as Saylor expects, and traders will continue to trade bitcoin (existing coins will not 100% be pledged for loans, but also move on exchanges), loans taken in fiat will be covered by the rising price of bitcoin through the reduction of the collateral fund for such loans.
They're repeating "4-year cycle for Bitcoin is not actual anymore", they're predicting 52K, then 42K, this is shit rally, economics down, recession already started. Now it's time to STFU and print that bloody money. We go up!
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