Everyone pack your bags, clear off, you stop saying the price of bitcoin, primal guys put your shirts back on, you in the corner, stop taking screenshots of normie trending memes on twitter. Clear off.
Get out.
It's over.
Nostr was mentioned on my favorite cryptography podcast today, Security, Cryptography, Whatever — they didn't spend a lot of time on it, but here are some highlights:
> It’s federated and it’s European. I bet it sucks.
> It’s some Ayahuasca inspired initiative from. From Messrs. Dorsey et al.
> Yeah, sure, it’s decentralized and federated, but like their proposal for encrypted end to end encrypted DMs was just bad by itself.
> When I reviewed this, my description of this was it looks almost exactly like Nebuchadnezzar [https://nebuchadnezzar-megolm.github.io/], which is like a fractal of things that could have gone wrong with like a complete ecosystem of like a secure messaging system. They found flaws in almost every component of that system and then tried to leverage them as far as they could.
You can read/listen here: https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2025/07/29/vegas-baby/
They also mentioned a talk that's going to be delivered at blackhat on August 9th which sounds super interesting:
> In this session, we unveil the first comprehensive security study of Nostr and its popular client applications, demonstrating how subtle flaws in cryptographic design, event verification, and link previews allow an attacker to forge "encrypted" direct messages (DMs), impersonate user profiles, and even leak the confidential message from "encrypted" DMs.
Here's the link to the agenda entry for the talk: https://www.blackhat.com/us-25/briefings/schedule/#not-sealed-practical-attacks-on-nostr-a-decentralized-censorship-resistant-protocol-45726
I'm looking forward to learning how we've screwed up — there aren't a lot of cryptographers here, and I know that open protocols make security even harder to maintain. Maybe we've screwed up irretrievably, but I'd rather know now than later.
Discussion
back to blewsky it is
Lol
It's quite funny cos something like nostr is probably increasingly needed in the UK lol.
Twitter is still easily the best social media platform content-wise despite its many many flaws, slop, annoyances and horrid aspects.
yup
it's like an endless problem loop of content -> content creators -> content consumers
and asking who should come first
i have my preferences and ideas about it but i'm not gonna write an essay about that eh
curious if and how controlled the devices themselves will be over there too
mby booted and sold with an extra layer of monitoring firmware etc
Who knows. Not sure that's really needed I think they have deals with the major platforms and a lot messaging apps to look at user data lol. And that's what most people are on.
Maybe I can get my neighbours to download bitch@ and try to shitpost with them 🥲
Only if you invite them over for dinner and y'all sit in the living room though
Not really. 100m range will get you to a few neighbours. I would say it’s highly dependent on where you live
I tried the other day at a public building, nothing.
It's a nice app for those times you need to scream really loud but don't want to be an annoying bitch though, fwiw.
If no one else has the app you could be in a crowd with thousands of people and you would get nothing as well
Sounds accurate 😂
Does it? 🤔
We'll never know because there's noone there to attest the accuracy of the sound... 🤣😂
There’s no one there, yet 🤣🤣🤣
Can't wait for when it fills up with cops and I can chat with someone 🤣
