Damus

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Nuh profile picture
All L2s are just a company that will go out of business at some point, including all your LSPs and Arks. A merge mined sidechain with 80% of the hash rate is going no where.

Nuh profile picture
Botanix "Spiderchain" shutting down with 1 month notice is a clear demonstration of why merge mined sidechains, especially with a BitVM bridge is the only long term bet that makes sense. There will always be Bitcoin miners, and mining sidechains is marginal cost for them, and a BitVM bridge may make the N in the 1-of-N multisig large enough that you don't have to worry that one company going out of business kills the entire chain

But even if the 2WP collapses, a merge mined sidechain will continue to have value just like shitcoins continue to have value, but the merge mining answer the question of block production in a sustainable long-term manner.
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Nuh profile picture
Ok but whatever client you are using for Nostr can be made to do the same things, and Matrix can have clients on different apps stores than regulated ones. I think people just give their favourite protocols too much grace. Fundamentally you can censor Nostr just as effectively, and sacrificing consistency and single source of truth doesn't make you immune to any form of censorship, it just degrades everything.
Analogue Dog · 1d
Thank you. I wasn't aware of Floresta - very interesting. Ya - BIP gatekeeping has become a travesty. Is there any reason why a lightning node (i.e. CLN) couldn't be fitted atop Floresta? I'd like to spec a modification to a Waveahare device that allows people to plug low cost touchscreen microco...
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Nuh profile picture
Not true, I come from a tradition of P2P networks and there is zero evidence that a P2P network is more censorship resistant than a good old http servers + agile DNS records that keep changing whenever an IP is black listed.

If anything that is how most successful and useful services remain step ahead of censorship.

Let alone that if Jumble stopped checking npub signatures you wouldn't even care or notice.

But I am. Not going to bother selling anything to you, it is just as futile as you selling to Nostr.
ynniv · 2d
of course it's possible. but the benefit to the network doesn't outweigh the cost. apparently the benefit doesn't even outweigh minor attribute tweaks, or we'd already be using my proposal
Nuh profile picture
Exactly that is why it makes zero sense to bother with Nostr, if you are going to make a proper solution make a proper solution, key rotation and all, with strong consistency as well.

So not going all the way, when the half measures are just as unacceptable in Nostr as the full measures is a waste of time.