Subnostr

After having had my Brave Sync breached about 9 months ago, I started to become a lot more wary of this business of trusting any servers, even when all they are doing is providing a rendezvous path to connect two NAT router inbound connection blocked devices, such as a pair of PCs or a phone and a PC.

I also lost a lot of emails some time back from my protonmail when I had to do a password recovery, everything was encrypted to a key I didn't have anymore.

So, I'm now shifting all my reliability measures to my own hardware, which I can thoroughly audit and exclude from outside access far more easily than a public website.

Backup to a second disk, at least, and also, for Protonmail, get yourself their Bridge (the import/export tool is b0rked), and install Thunderbird and keep all your data backed up on your own systems.

This is a great example of how utterly the shitcoin token model fails to produce sufficiently useful services in a distributed manner. Why am I still needing to trust a few third parties to do offsite backups still?

The answer is that we are still waiting for someone to build streaming payment systems that use real internet money, ie LN, for such services.

Interestingly, this also is key to how the async receiving payments problem can be solved for LN as well.

I am currently shifting my efforts to fiat mining via shitcoin development work, because I have been unable to get people to realise that Indra is the missing link that will make Bitcoin and LN complete and more secure.

The majority of the work will now shift to another person, who was sponsoring me to this point, but there is still gonna be a lot more waiting time for the solution to be ready to be deployed by people.

I'm just a programmer and protocol designer, I'm not a marketer and I don't talk bullshit. This means that Indra is drowned out by all the endless reinvention of the wheel of way too many wallet clients and mobile apps, and not enough fundamental new protocols being built on top of Bitcoin and Lightning Network.

If I have to chase up funding, a) I'm useless at marketing and b) the inefficiency of devoting my energy to something I'm far worse at than building Indra is hard to justify.

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boston wine 2y ago

You should seriously consider applying for an nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f grant.

It’s beyond my technical acumen, but it sure as hell sounds like freedom tech, what you want to build.

Cc nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

Loki 2y ago

I got a small grant right back at the beginning 12 months ago from Geyser.

I applied to spiral.xyz and they require basically an MVP alpha.

Defining this is not simple when the concept aims at highly programmable routing, but as far as proof of concept, tests already have been written for a basic codebase that tests the cryptography and protocol handling.

Already have checked out opensats and much the same answer from them as spiral.

The requirements need more technical appraisal at this point because the protocol was not well specified previously, it was just coded and tests were written.

I'm really not that bothered to have to work on cosmos, though less so for a working on an ethereum distributed validator system, to be honest. As far as I'm concerned from a technical perspective it is already a proven concept in its initial, ragged implementation.

It's you all out there who are missing out by not having resources directed to adding some more eyes and hands to get this thing out there. We discussed strategy quite intensively, as for how to find the short path to us being compensated by the system itself, and that path means building a hybrid Nostr/Indra relay which enables distributed LN based paywalling for up and download of notes and content.

Ok, I'm understating it. Really I'm frustrated af to have to go back to shitcoin dev work. Last year it was incredibly irritating that the shitcoin community had abandoned Go and everyone is all Rust Rust Rust and it's such a garbage language I learned how to work with it by necessity but for me it is a shitcoin itself compared to Go.