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2022-10-23 01:13:42

#[0] Do you know how we might go about rate limiting our relays? Since the connections are over web sockets I'm thinking iptables might be needed but wanted to check with you for ideas.

2022-10-22 18:28:48

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I feel people on nostr essentially "vote" for authenticity by liking or responding to posts, so there has to be a method using simple counts of tags. If people who are already trusted get higher weight this probably ends up being equivalent to a type of pagerank.

2022-10-22 16:49:45

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Same. I noticed a large increase in the number of events lately and I don't think they're all real.
Also are we concerned at all that spammers will simply do the POW? If you're willing to write a script to create loads of pubkeys and send messages with them you're probably also willing to include a few lines to compute some hashes. I could even imagine some evil person farming POW to either give away or sell very cheaply.

2022-10-22 01:56:42

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Exactly: https://twitter.com/DefiantLs/status/1583599025453817856

2022-10-21 23:08:37

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Nevermind, just got picked up it seems

2022-10-21 23:06:25

If you make a BTC transaction and forget to include fees is it in permanent limbo? Seems it was debited from my wallet but is stuck in unconfirmed status.

2022-10-21 22:45:00

Contrast the coverage with that of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial (an almost perfect A/B experiment on outrageous media spin): https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1583557867197456384

2022-10-21 22:07:14

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Like queries that would get sent to relays, or this is purely a client-side thing?
(I may have misinderstood the convo here, I was thinking in terms of algos like say recommending new contacts or interesting posts, flagging fake accounts, search functionality, etc.)

2022-10-21 21:49:35

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I wonder if APIs exposing such algos could be a type of "layer 2" for nostr. Since relays already have databases of events they may not be too hard to build on top.

2022-10-21 19:11:56

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This is just one example of something to look at, I think there are a lot of factors you could combine to tell if a given pubkey is an actual engaged human (e.g., age of pubkey, number of times the pubkey is tagged by other pubkeys, existence of metadata, etc.).
It's possible to trick such a set of rules, but the act of doing so is itself PoW. The benefit is that it allows real humans to utilize work already done.

2022-10-21 01:50:31

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That's a nice idea. Like a customizable noise barrier between yourself and the world.

2022-10-21 00:29:38

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Plus the users for which PoW is wasteful could often easily be verified through other means. If you have 100 followers then you're probably not a spammer. Yes this can be circumvented by a spammer whose sole aim in life is to spam but who cares?

2022-10-20 23:27:09

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Any surveillance that's known is almost certainly only the tip of an enormous iceberg

2022-10-20 22:28:26

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How would clients implement PoW without causing lag when posting?

2022-10-20 19:21:41

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Would it be useful to apply a heuristic like "ignore all pubkeys without metadata"? Like a poor man's proof of work.

2022-10-20 17:19:04

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“Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.”

2022-10-20 17:17:55

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I'm not much of a programmer but never understood the appeal of OOP. So much boilerplate and strange concepts when all you want to do is manipulate data (i.e., apply functions).

2022-10-20 05:33:20

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I think taking ownership of data is another way. People entrust their information with third party servers too much.

2022-10-20 03:05:02

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Almost 11K of which have zero followers 🤔

2022-10-20 03:01:07

How many unique pubkeys are people seeing in the nostrverse? I see about 12K.

2022-10-20 01:19:25

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You could also borrow some ideas from Reddit and optionally autoblock pubkeys that aren't old enough (this can suck for legitimate newcomers though)

2022-10-20 01:15:35

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Yeah I feel we should publish blacklists the same way we publish contacts (and enable easy sharing somehow)

2022-10-20 01:10:20

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For the most part as a user I don't care about spam because I don't follow spammers. It seems like more of a problem for relays.

2022-10-20 01:08:55

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I feel to some extent spam will have to be addressed by standard server-side rate limiting and banning of abusive IP addresses at the relay level, that at least helps keep the complexity out of the protocol itself

2022-10-19 23:44:30

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And it'll be mostly spam-free

2022-10-19 23:43:25

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Provides a natural way to expand your direct contacts as well

2022-10-19 23:43:01

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What about an "n degrees of separation" view (where perhaps the user can change n)? I can see posts from my contacts, their contacts, etc. Sort of like a personal quasi-global feed.

2022-10-19 03:30:14

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I'm sure my data is biased, but whatever

2022-10-19 03:28:20

Just calculated the most followed pubkeys on nostr (based on a database of around 140K events). The winners are damus, jb55, fiatjaf, unclebobmartin, and dergigi. Thank you to everyone who participated.

2022-10-18 20:21:18

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Most tutorials I'm seeing recommend Umbrel or other graphical interface tools. Wasn't sure if the core lightning CLI was too user unfriendly but I'll give it a try.
I'm using bitcoind since btcd would have taken a month to do the initial download at the rate it was going.

2022-10-18 19:35:55

Is it conceivable to run a lightning node using only the core binaries? Want to learn more about it but don't want to deal with a bloated GUI.

2022-10-17 22:52:47

What other kinds of malice can we imagine taking place on nostr? We have spam, harassment, users impersonating others, anything else? How should each be mitigated?

2022-10-17 22:40:33

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Whatever happened to Parler? Are they still operating or were forced into hibernation?

2022-10-17 01:50:35

#[0] Could maybe call this a very minor bug, but when you go to post something in Damus and the prompt appears saying "Type...", if you hit backspace instead of tapping the text area it starts deleting characters from the helper text and treats that as your message (hope that made sense).
IMO any interaction should probably be like tapping and clear the message box.

2022-10-17 01:43:51

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Game changer

2022-10-16 18:50:29

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Just saw this article which I admit I haven't read yet: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6079. And some person on Stack Exchange claiming you aren't as sure you have an accurate state of the network compared to running over the public internet.

2022-10-16 18:10:02

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https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1581435499331301376

2022-10-16 18:05:59

Is running a full bitcoin node through a tor proxy not a good idea? Mostly I just want to conceal my IP address but I'm seeing people say it can cause other problems.

2022-10-15 21:36:48

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This also doesn't require any changes to the underlying protocol

2022-10-15 21:33:39

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I do think there's still room for data-driven methods that detect this type of thing. All the data is out in the open so anyone can build heuristics or algorithms for flagging non-human accounts, for instance. Those algorithms can then be open sourced for any relay operator or client to use.

2022-10-15 19:22:44

Anyone else seeing an *increase* in mask usage in their area? Society seems to be getting dumber.

2022-10-14 19:58:46

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It may be instructive that PoW was originally invented to deal with spam but AFAIK isn't used for that today. Everyone uses machine learning, which may work on nostr too.

2022-10-14 19:56:29

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Regarding PoW, how would this work exactly? It seems to me it's only effective if all clients opt in (If a client doesn't do you just ignore PoW for those clients? Then all spammers use that client. If you require it then you ban everyone that uses the client. Both seem bad.)

2022-10-14 19:01:29

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Actually that may not work because then you'd have to pay multiple times to send to several relays

2022-10-14 18:58:24

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I think this idea was already suggested, but certain relays could charge a toll in order to post to them (but not read from them). These relays will tend to be spam-free.

2022-10-14 18:54:33

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I still like the idea of making a small payment to use nostr (although if it's not crypto that probably becomes painful to implement, and if it is you alienate lots of people). Easily eliminates 95% of spam and provides some type of monetary incentive to developers or relay operators.

2022-10-14 03:29:43

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2022-10-14 02:38:09

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Ok so the feed eventually shows on Firefox it just takes a really long time

2022-10-14 02:36:48

Test

2022-10-14 02:34:33

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Is it possible some JavaScript browser API is being used that isn't consistent across Firefox / Chrome?

2022-10-14 02:33:10

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On Brave desktop it works

2022-10-14 02:31:49

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That was on desktop. On mobile with Firefox focus it doesn't prompt for a key and just shows the Damus logo and the background colors

2022-10-14 01:11:53

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Would be a shrewd move

2022-10-14 00:44:28

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Yeah no console errors or anything. I'm on Firefox

2022-10-14 00:41:26

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Is this still up? It's blank after I enter my pubkey

2022-10-13 18:39:46

Central bankers are modern day alchemists

2022-10-13 06:07:55

Watch this doctor lead an insane sermon to the pagan gods of wokeism: https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1579904917761708034
How did we all lose our minds so quickly?

2022-10-13 05:21:57

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Try kettlebells in your home. Pretty fast / efficient way to exercise.

2022-10-12 22:44:33

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It's also disturbing how willingly they hand over their privacy and data in exchange for convenience. It feels like we might be creating a generation of "soft totalitarians" who happily submit to the overmind in exchange for information / entertainment heroin.

2022-10-12 22:41:23

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Any theories as to why this is happening? I wonder if most generations feel this way about the younger ones though.

2022-10-12 21:15:02

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And they're often confused when you hand them physical cash, struggling to do basic math without a calculator

2022-10-12 21:09:28

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I've noticed the exact same thing. When they're the cashier they act annoyed that you're buying something.

2022-10-12 20:25:40

When is Damus going to support putting pronouns in our metadata?

2022-10-12 02:34:19

CNN has NFTs? What the hell? https://cointelegraph.com/news/cnn-to-shut-down-its-nft-marketplace-and-issue-20-refund

2022-10-12 00:39:27

#[0] What URL should we use for Damus web (or is it under development)?

2022-10-11 20:49:15

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Not if there's any way to avoid it

2022-10-11 19:39:45

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He must think nostr has some serious lag

2022-10-11 19:03:02

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Welcome to the nostr underworld

2022-10-11 01:18:36

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🦾

2022-10-11 00:22:52

Finally finished syncing from genesis after a few false starts

2022-10-10 19:56:27

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Also locking credit at all three bureaus is a nice protection if someone does try stealing your identity

2022-10-10 19:50:24

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There's still a lot of low hanging fruit that isn't too hard to implement and is worthwhile for everyone in my opinion

2022-10-10 19:48:59

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Yeah I feel a lot of the advice is for people whose safety is put at risk by a lack of privacy. Otherwise I take what he says as suggestions only or as education on how people leave traces about their lives.

2022-10-10 18:18:40

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This is on the shelf next to me 🙂 Also a fan of his OSINT book

2022-10-10 18:08:53

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Yeah that's my plan in the future

2022-10-10 16:07:52

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This one they publish openly on their website

2022-10-10 02:52:54

Looks like others having issues with btcd? https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/1579269368684638208

2022-10-09 00:34:05

This is a pretty stark difference between common sense and corruption: https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1578779442025213952

2022-10-08 19:28:07

Speaking of bad for privacy, I just realized my county has a public API which essentially let's you run SQL queries against the tens of millions of names and addresses of all the properties in their database

2022-10-08 16:05:13

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I feel this should be pretty easy to do (theoretically at least), when you ask for DMs prove ownership of your private key and then the relay only responds with DMs sent to the corresponding public key

2022-10-08 16:01:55

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Could it be part of the protocol that relays only send encrypted messages if they know the person receiving is the intended recipient? In that sense the relay is behaving more like a private server and should solve any privacy concerns.

2022-10-08 15:12:29

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IMO from a privacy standpoint it's probably better using nostr only for public communication. If someone wants to carry about a truly private conversation I'd rather use an encrypted DM to set up an actual peer to peer channel that isn't broadcast to the world and use that instead. No point storing the events for everyone else to see even if they can't decrypt them.

2022-10-08 15:01:24

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I think it was btcd. I did a bit of reading and apparently lots of people have complained about extremely slow sync times, possibly due to garbage collection. I switched to bitcoind and after a little over a day have gotten further than five days with btcd.

2022-10-07 20:22:33

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I agree they suck when in comes to delaying transactions. What issues have you had with them out of curiosity?

2022-10-07 01:18:51

My sock puppet Twitter account that I never tweet from just got locked. Scrambling to get rid of bots now that Elon is definitely taking over?

2022-10-06 20:13:30

Apparently Monday is also "Indigenous People's Day" so no one in the US has to feel guilty about celebrating the European discovery of America. Has this been a thing for a while and I just never noticed?

2022-10-06 00:02:21

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How do you do your withdrawals out of curiosity? Did you share your xpub with them for automatic transfers?

2022-10-05 23:44:51

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Signed up for Swan Bitcoin and I think I'll start using this for scheduled buys going forward. The minimalistic UI is so much better than other exchanges that try to do "everything."

2022-10-05 23:33:44

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#[1] Did you take your relay down? I thought I saw it was responding with a 502 status.

2022-10-05 22:07:24

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Is there risk of someone just running away with your money after you pay? Still not sure how the coordination would work.

2022-10-04 22:10:08

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I was looking into Robosats too. What's your preferred way of transferring fiat to the seller on there?

2022-10-04 21:47:37

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This looks interesting, will check it out and test some small amounts. Seems a bit scary though for a newbie wanting to make big purchases.

2022-10-04 21:37:23

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Originally it was stocks but now it's all cash

2022-10-04 21:09:49

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It's like 1.5% but I'm trying to convert an entire portfolio so it becomes a lot. Wondering if there are any exchanges that cap transaction fees for instance.

2022-10-04 19:58:15

What's the cheapest way to buy large amounts of BTC? Coinbase wants to charge hundreds of dollars in fees.

2022-10-03 19:58:28

In general people who like being in power are not likable people

2022-10-02 18:11:27

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Would they really though? I would bet most are fairly risk averse and would rather just check people in rather than eat into their own income in order to avoid it. There might even be benefits to them in keeping track of their customers the way the government wants to.

2022-09-30 19:30:23

Is there room for proprietary / profit-driven applications to be built on nostr? For instance, rather than companies trying to compete with Twitter by building their own private social networks, have them plug into nostr (although not clear how they'd monetize in an ethical way).
I think there is value in having teams of paid developers building on top of the network rather than relying entirely on volunteers.

2022-09-28 23:41:19

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I think a lot of people who considered themselves liberal but no longer do were actually classically liberal types, not to be confused with leftists

2022-09-28 23:19:18

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CBDCs seem the most nefarious. The idea of allowing the government the ability to program your money seems utterly dystopian and anyone who goes along with it is an idiot. Personally I've reverted to using cash almost everywhere.