matteopellegrini
Matteo Pellegrini

https://www.theorangepillapp.com/en

Founder @ orangepillapp 🍊💊

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2023-05-04 18:24:27 CEST

The only reason I created this account, on Jack suggestion, was to engage with the community and share my thoughts.
It appears that my opinions on #nostr are not compelling enough to garner a discussion, so I will not monitor this account anymore.
If you’d like to connect with me you can find me on Twitter or OPA.
Farewell nostriches!

2023-05-03 18:34:53 CEST

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Care to explain?

2023-05-03 00:53:39 CEST

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Which relay is going to transmit notes of a terrorist organization? Which client is going to allow relays that transmit such notes?
We can get darker than that, but I think you get the point.
Delegating censorship resistance to humans obviously cannot work.
It has to be embedded in the protocol.

2023-05-03 00:45:34 CEST

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Chatgpt think that having user pay 1 sats to send a note might lead to spam, but not charging them would not?
🤦‍♂️

2023-05-02 23:49:10 CEST

Since the nostriches are not interested in engaging with my critiques, I’ve asked chatgpt to do it. https://nostr.build/i/3330ddf3ba809bc0939bfbf6477845231addeb6a5b91587ca578dd64a153f5c6.jpg #note17mn…f68j

2023-05-02 18:20:42 CEST

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I doubt the network would haven taken off with that economic model, but yes the beneficiary of the service paying for the service is a viable model.
Unless I’m missing something Nostr seems to have that model completely reversed.

2023-05-02 16:20:57 CEST

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Why not?

2023-05-02 10:50:41 CEST

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Any thoughts on this #[2] ?

2023-05-02 00:17:45 CEST

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https://damus.io/note17mnsnf650cctm0w20kv36gp54m6m7gq84t06uzwmcve5g0wxs9gsr8f68j

2023-05-01 23:24:56 CEST

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Who would the miners be charging in your scenario?
Couldn’t #nostr be built on top of LN with a mandatory 1 sat fee to send a note?

2023-04-30 22:59:08 CEST

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Bank of England is #NGMI

2023-04-30 21:33:20 CEST

The person who is escaping censorship should bear the costs, not the person or organization providing the tools to bypass it.
On #nostr the exact opposite is true.

2023-04-30 20:22:45 CEST

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Would be great to know if #[1] had thought about these concerns during the design of nostr, and if I’m completely missing the mark.

2023-04-30 16:53:57 CEST

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#[1]

2023-04-30 12:01:42 CEST

Let's start with what I - as a user - like about #nostr:
- The idea of an open & censorship-resistant online communication/social media protocol
- The ability to unilaterally send value (zap) to other users
- The idea that a user could switch from one client to another without losing their social graph
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, Nostr is fatally flawed and will not work at scale.
Although there are quite a few flaws in the way Nostr was designed, the only one that really matters is that, unlike with Bitcoin, there's no embedded economic model and since censorship resistance cannot be free, Nostr will end up replicating all the woes (censorship, moderation, user data monetization, shadow banning, ads, algos…) of the much-despised Twitter and co.
In Bitcoin, the block reward (aka the economic model) is what attracts actors willing to commit computing and energy power to defend the network (aka the security model), which is what fundamentally makes Bitcoin censorship-resistant and decentralized.
/// Without an economic model, you don't get a security model, and without a security model, you simply don't get censorship resistance. ///
In Nostr, both the economic and the security model are completely delegated to the humans running the relays and clients, which is the same exact system of the internet at large and given human nature, one should expect it will yield identical results, if not worse.
A possible solution to this could have been to attach economic value to each note, say 1 sat, which would then ensure that there would always be somebody willing to carry the message to the desired recipient and that they wouldn't need to monetize the network in other ways.
Just imagine what would happen if there was no block reward and/or transaction fees, and miners had to come up with their own business model/monetization strategies.
To be fair, even if Nostr had an embedded economic model, it would still face numerous challenges in becoming a successful platform such as the absence of a defensible moat, which makes it very unattractive for developers to come here and build great products.
If, somehow, Nostr does end up becoming the very much needed beacon of free speech in the world, there would be nobody happier to be wrong but me.
Godspeed.

2023-04-26 21:20:49 CEST

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The incentives for merchants to accept bitcoin are very compelling.

2023-04-26 21:20:04 CEST

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Can confirm.

2023-04-26 08:57:53 CEST

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For the record I’ve never compared nostr to OPA, which are very different products.
My skepticism of nostr is due to the enormous flaws in the protocol design, which i have explained at length on Twitter and I’ll do my best to recount them here in the coming days.

2023-04-26 01:47:08 CEST

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Hey Jack, nice to meet you 🤙

2023-04-26 01:46:10 CEST

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😉

2023-04-26 01:40:16 CEST

Heard somebody was looking for me?
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