Nostr Web Client

Communication about web wallets being a bad idea (fluffypony sharing his experience with mymonero, talking about nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg ).

"Education" is sadly rarely a good answer. It does not work. Education does not solve society's problems and sadly it does not solve problems of many individuals either.

I think the better way is when the wallet becomes self-hosted for every home node. Integrate it into Umbrel or similar service and users would access it by logging into Umbrel or similar service, not by accessing it over the common internet.

I think that PWAs and home nodes are crucial for future.

Screenshots from my presentations about Cypherpunk visions and trends 2023-2025.

https://hackyourself.io/product/cypherpunk-visions-and-trends-2023-2025-ebook/

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Josh 2y ago

I wish home nodes were more popular, but unfortunately I think there is a ceiling. In the US I think there is a cost benefit calculation. I considered an umbrel competitor and from europeans I was told that since they turn off the wifi to save electricity at night (!), that they would probably not consider this.

There are lots of interesting things one can imagine if everyone had a node with compute to rent let's say, but I haven't figured a decent incentive model (besides shitcoins).

Juraj 2y ago

Very few people turn off wifi (let alone to save on electricity).

I am looking forward to when the home nodes get basic ai capabilities.

My thinking - everyone has a router at home. Let's just make it more capable.

Josh 2y ago

It was less a generalization and more anecdote, of which, my jaw dropped. Yeah, the route issuer is the obvious first thought. But I'm not sure the solution is the one everything box. If you reboot your AI-router-node-nas-wallet-mediaplayer every night I'm not sure that's a great experience.

Then, once you do have that one everything box, the next issue is backups, reliability, etc...

I'm not trying to be over critical. I spent a decent amount of time noodling a node like solution but when you put the dollar sign next to performance hardware to do all those things, its not as affordable as consumers would like.

Juraj 2y ago

Modularity might be fun. Or different boxes for different use-cases.

I think Synology and QNAP do it quite well. You can install modules, they have different versions with different price points, etc.