The Great Firewall of China
Feb 2, 2023
Block Height:
774,777
Moscow Time
4,224
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🎙Quote of the Day🎙️
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Stack Hodler (npub1g4l…xt9c) “The whole point of nostr is that it can't be stopped simply by taking an app off the app store.
If the CCP or Charlie Munger want it banned you're probably doing something right.”
The whole point of nostr is that it can't be stopped simply by taking an app off the app store.
If the CCP or Charlie Munger want it banned you're probably doing something right.
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🚨Headline Nostr News🚨
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Damus App approval brings on tsunami 🌊 of new users and reaches 56k app store downloads and steadily climbs up charts of most popular app.
nostr:nevent1qqs9s9qjvc27uyys7rdy4pzag5ah53jpgkz9sguf2kaxhp3jdk0ywsc4vhwymquoting nevent1q…d53d
NVK (npub1az9…m8y8) notes that most of these users appear to be from China according to his relay data
quoting nevent1q…vtl6Just realized I have country break down, china was a huge part of the spike.
Relays handled AppStore (minus CN) very well.
Bullish.
Unfortunately, Damus was quickly 👀banned from the China App Store with the Cyberspace Administration of China 👀citing illegal content. Good thing Damus didn’t get put on the China app store on 🍆D-Day🍆.
That was fastEven though Damus App is now banned in China, it appears that some relays are still able to service Chinese clients.
Just check the relay domain (brb.io) still not blocked within china, all major provinces can still see it. Was just the AppStore.
#[0]
Speaking of relays, the surge in popularity of nostr has caused relays to be overwhelmed with record number of clients connecting. Eden relays hit with 800k new requests from China and 600k from US clients. Cameri and FiatJaf think scaling horizontally is the only solution.
Till they figure out web clients.
shawn (npub1clk…pup9) reminds us that GitHub is a centralized service subject to US sanctions and can be blocked by the Great Firewall, increasing the utility for a Nostr GitHub replacement. FOSS is incredible but needs to be hosted on a decentralized service to reach its full potential.
we need the nostr GitHub replacement… #[0]
itme_brain (npub1737…rdyt) poses the question: “are ordinals an ⚔️attack⚔️ on #Bitcoin?” Luxor mining admits to stealing pool contributors hash in order to pull off the 4MB jpeg stunt with Udi and Eric Wahl.
Meanwhile over in bird app land.
Luxor mining admits to stealing pool contributors hash in order to pull off the 4MB jpeg stunt with Udi and Eric Wahl.
Still think ordinals are not an attack?
https://twitter.com/ethan_vera/status/1621008145278697473?s=20
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🏝️Nostrica Update🏝️
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mcshane (npub16vr…p2va) notes that 360 virtual participants have signed up so far!
360 virtual #Nostrica participants signed up so far
every one is going to go a long way in educating others and accelerating this protocol
https://nostrica.com/
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🖥️nostr Tech🖥️
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Cameri (npub1qqq…n47m) and angela (npub19vv…t562) collaborate on wss://puravida.nostr.land, the first ♀️female-run♀️ paid relay, to the family of nostr.land relays!
Welcome wss://puravida.nostr.land, the first female-run paid relay, to the family of nostr.land relays!
#[0] will be running and maintaining this relay. Show her support, love, and 🫂!
Moss (npub129z…y5gm) Damus is 2nd most popular social network app in Hong Kong on the App Store.
Damus is the second most popular social network in Hong Kong, China, which is pretty strong. #damus #nostr Picture clear version. #[2] #[3]
FarCue (npub1kry…shf3) ⚠️EU bans Linux OS⚠️!!
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/eu-chat-control-law-will-ban-open-source/
fiatjaf (npub180c…h6w6) reiterates the “dumb relay” / “smart client” ethos of nostr and says that clients should be able to find people on different relays.
For Nostr to work I should be able to run a shitty relay on a $3 VPS just to post my own notes and my followers should be able to talk to it. Currently there are dozens of hundred-dollar powerful-machine relays out there and they are all being killed by the DDoS of queries.
Clients must get smarter and automatically know how to find people and fetch their posts even if they are on a shitty relay in the dark corners of the internet.
Once that happens, then it will make sense for the network to scale horizontally, for people to spread around multiple relays instead of always gravitating towards the central set of the same relays where everybody is.
NVK (npub1az9…m8y8) NVK reports stats from BRB.io
BRB.io morning stats:
2249 active websockets (right now). Recent connections.
(Peak yesterday was ~3.5K)
726,109 events total
Metadata events: 56,690
Plain Notes: 198,095
Private DMs: 30,071
Reposts: 22,727
Reactions: 302,342
Redis DB Stats:
Used memory: 13.61G
Used memory (peak): 29.14G
Number of keys: 12,014,847
Uptime: 28 days
Connected db clients: 336
Events Index:
Percent indexed: 100%
Number of documents: 726,109
Number of records: 2,233,398
Hash indexing failures: 0
Users Index:
Percent indexed: 100%
Number of documents: 77,021
Number of records: 1,189,010
Hash indexing failures: 0
tyiu (npub1yau…vjmf) Terry Yiu implores developers to use open source translators rather than centralized platforms like Google Translate.
Using closed centralized platforms (DeepL, Google Translate, etc) to translate goes against the general ethos of nostr. If we want better translations, we should train the open source models that back LibreTranslate, pay someone to do it, or find a different open source translation API (not many exist). I submitted a pull request last night to improve client side language detection which should make things a bit better.
andre (npub1rvg…xrck) The Rise of Paid Nostr Relays
https://twitter.com/andreneves/status/1621187069996318720
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⚡nostr Business⚡
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nostrnaut (npub19up…tt6r) 🤡⚠️Charlie Munger (99) gives policy and investing advice⚠️🤡.
on January 2, 1889, The Judge Publishing Company published their edition of “Judge” with a cover depicting an anti-electricity cartoon, titled:
“An Unrestrained Demon”
little over 134 years later, a 99-year old unrestrained demon says the U.S. should follow China’s footsteps and ban #bitcoin:
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/02/02/charlie-munger-us-should-ban-cryptocurrencies.html
- what utterly asinine comments will a future 99-year old make in the next ~140 years?
jb55 (npub1xts…kk5s) Don’t get scammed by Damus tokens being sold on shitcoin exchanges.
Apparently people are selling damus tokens on shitcoin exchanges 🤦♂️ damus will never have a token. Don't get scammed folks.
ZEUS (npub1xnf…lpr5) ⚡Zeus⚡ wallet has POS at Pubkey bar in 🗽NYC🗽 all “yous” NYC nostriches should check it out. https://pubkey.bar/
Updated our point of sale at PubKey and dropped off a bunch of our stickers.
Check them out if you're in NYC! https://pubkey.bar/
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🎩nostr Lifestyle🎩
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kano (npub1ftc…q3tx) becomes a 📖book🔥 burner and claims books are useless because all knowledge comes from wisdom which is learned in the streets. Wu Tang Clan was not available for comment.
Does someone want to tell him that Wisdom is mostly gained through Knowledge? Imagine saying you don’t need books… beta shit.
fiatjaf (npub180c…h6w6) has some deep thoughts on horizontal and vertical scaling issues of relays running the Nostr protocol.
For Nostr to work I should be able to run a shitty relay on a $3 VPS just to post my own notes and my followers should be able to talk to it. Currently there are dozens of hundred-dollar powerful-machine relays out there and they are all being killed by the DDoS of queries.
Clients must get smarter and automatically know how to find people and fetch their posts even if they are on a shitty relay in the dark corners of the internet.
Once that happens, then it will make sense for the network to scale horizontally, for people to spread around multiple relays instead of always gravitating towards the central set of the same relays where everybody is.
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🩺Nostr Health of the Network🩺
pubkeys
403,092
events
1,704,223
relays
272
Source nostr.io/stats
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🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥
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Compromised (npub1z4m…na6p) Morpheus knows You can’t ban nostr 🟣💊!
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Stay Classy Nostr.