Nostr Web Client

TL;DR:

1. Choice of crypto: nostr picked “bitcoin crypto starter pack”. But what is good for blockchain may be bad for network: it is ultra-slow and non-standard in digital identity world (incompatible with PGP/SSH)

2. Choice of javascript-style (no data typing): vectors for DoS attacks, slow speed, low extensibility

3. No end-to-end encryption

Overall: very vulnerable to DoS, incompatible with other decentralized identity schemata, will have scalability problems.

Alexis Roussel 2y ago

i think the choices in #nostr are not only technical, but social and mostly taken from the Bitcoin culture:

1. Open source and open protocol

2. Bips are Nips

3. transparency by default

4. selfhosting relays

5. all you need are your keys.

6. start with a small set of function

7. provide an emancipating tool

8. time it when twitter and co goes mental :) (like 2008 and financial sector)

TL;DR:

nostr reuses basic bitcoin culture to create a basic protocol that can evolve.

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Discussion

Dr Maxim Orlovsky 2y ago

That’s all true. But it needs to survive through the future DoS attacks and scale, though. And I see that because of the tech issues that may be very challenging and limiting its future.