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Can you have this thing on your smartphone? I'm just using it on my laptop because some guy gave me this address on twitter.
I already understood I need to save a key to enter this profile again, but is there like an app for the smartphone? Or has to be on the browser?
Amethyst for Android, Damus for iPhone.
Yeah, if you’re an iPhone user you can download “Damus” which is #[6]’s client. On Android, you can download an app called Amethyst from the android app store.
There are several other clients being developed but you’d have to either build them yourself from source or go to their Github repos to get the APK file (for Android phones). That’s a bit more technical.
There's a lot of amethyst showing up on the app store. Which one to choose?
What wallets are people talking about in here?
And what's the connection between nostr and bitcoin?
Decentralized freedom.
Most people on here are talking about bitcoin wallets. There are many different wallets available but most people seem to use Breez, Wallet of Satoshi, Blue Wallet and Muun.
Nostr doesn’t really have anything to do with Bitcoin, at least protocol wise. Nostr and bitcoin share some similarities in the use of public key cryptography and something called Schnorr signatures.
Bitcoin microtransactions also work very well on nostr which enables frictionless and very fast cross border payments into the mix.
Ok. And you put your wallet addresses here in the nostr?
lnbc31700n1p3amzwppp5djs64atw5nagt7fx05acfmmr46y8lykveye3a3396wfsrk9tcc3sdqu2askcmr9wssx7e3q2dshgmmndp5scqzpgxqyz5vqsp5mzwgavq8sr4uttcsmwa64959lp7adlktatplvvnkl2zmp23drmrq9qyyssq98u9jfpey8pspvw3v07saf7f87w5rj7qhlhxy7x0tna80x8e9sy97xty4llwwx5gnujr5hvw98ahkhjy6x4klndaqsylf6c6va845hcpnd4uqn
Yeah, a lot of clients let’s you set it in your profile metadata where you set your profile pic and name. Then when it’s set, some clients show a icon with a ⚡️ icon or something that people can click to send you some bitcoin.
Why would people send bitcoins or sats to each other?
any reason really good content, coffee, birthday, pretty much any reason you would use like venmo!
On nostr people usually just do it for fun. Some people have paid me sats for running a relay that is open (and free) for anyone to use. One user wanted to pay for a domain I bought, so they just sent me sats for it. And a looot of people sent me some sats as a birthday gift a week ago (they were way to kind, sent way to many sats).
On a more serious note, some bitcoiners really like the idea of “value for value” (V4V) where people pay eachother for different kinds of services.
One example is stacker.news which basically is a reddit clone but upvotes are replaced with sats. So you can tip sats to both posts and comments you either find valueable or agree with or whatever other cause. If someone writes a good guide you find helpful, you can tip them some sats for their work.
Another example is Fountain.fm which is a podcasting app where you stream satoshis to the podcast you listen to and the satoshis goes directly to the podcast host (or whatever they have set up). On some podcasts, you can actually get paid x amount of sats per second or minute to listen. You “stream” sats back an forth as the bitcoiners call it.
Because you can't stop me from sending you sats!