pixelmind

Has anyone noticed some unusual lagging in nostr lately?

This is like jailing a weapon manufacturer instead of the murderer

The huge sense of freedom within both the Blockchain and nostr can be a bit overwhelming sometimes in the fact that this freedom is used for illegal activities, to hide obscure businesses, or any sort of criminal planning. There's been a lot of hype about the inevitable need of forking Bitcoin, and the risk this would bring to stackers. But this cannot take us back to a centralized auditing instance. No way. That would destroy the very essence and motivation of a decentralized system. Perhaps we should think of some sort of a social badge, maybe by a new NIP, with a neutral color, zero by default, which could get gradually warmer by adding negative votes, and colder with positive votes. It would be like zaps, but for reputation. I know this sort of ideas would bring me a bunch of red votes, but sorry I can't stop thinking around this purple and orange pills, I can't get rid of this mind-blowing new paradigm, and about all the actual, and potential goodness enclosed. I personally understand there's nothing illegal in decentralized communication as a system. Same with decentralized value management, it should be compatible with honest taxing, and legal business. The big thing is who we trust, an institution, a business owner, a central bank, the whole society? The bigger the decision group, is necessarily better? It is a fact that one protocol came from Satoshi (whoever it may be), and the other from @fiatjaf. We trust them because they open sourced, and therefore we believe the code is a social heritage. But all this is beyond the code, it's a whole new mindset, a treasure we want to preserve and polish, and since it's connected with real value, it's the closest to a dream come true.