Happy Sunday Nostr! Is it Nostriches or Nosterinos or ________?

I find myself tonight wanting to take the orange pill, but don’t have the time.

A lot of people new to Bitcoin and other decentralized technologies would benefit from this knowledge! I struggle to value the pros over the cons, myself.

Do you have a blog post or Note you can share that will help folks like us?

I hadn’t considered that… thank you.

I installed Damus on my iOS/iPad devices and just started posting. I didn’t know I had agency in relay choice.

This experience of a decentralized social environment is exciting, but also nerve-wracking.

I wonder what the future of trust looks like in the Nostr ecosystem. I’m dating myself, but in many ways it feels like IRC from the mid 90’s: trust your IRC server not to log everything you say and your IDENT creds, if compromised allowed for your nick to be hijacked. There wasn’t as much of a financial incentive for attackers back then as there would be now vis a vis Crypto.

I’m excited and scared to be on Nostr. It kinda feels like the early web in that sense :)

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Thank you so much for all of the info! Truly appreciated.

I will look into these, thanks for the pointer!

The problem now is trusting the signing app :(

Is there an official Nostr governing body that can set standards and guidelines here or is it early enough that the community is doing so from the ground up? It seems like the latter, but I’m still a Nostr n00b.

I love the decentralized nature of Nostr, but I have a nagging concern about my Nsec. If this secret is ever compromised, my entire identity across Nostr is compromised.

Is there a method to rotate breached nsec based on my npub? How would this work?

I would only possess an authenticate token, my npub, that anyone would know or could find out. I like how private Nostr is, but without having my nsec/npub associated with another identity like my email, it seems like I must protect my nsec at all costs.

I store my nsec in 1Password, so I’m not overly concerned about disclosure of my nsec locally, but I worry that another strength of the Nostr ecosystem (as I understand it after using it for 48 hours) could prove to be a security weakness: all Nostr clients must protect my nsec equally. If one of them ever mis-handles this secret, my entire Nostr identity is compromised.

Am I understanding Nostr Authentication properly?

#asknostr

First 24 hours on Nostr impressions:

- Lots of activity which is nice to see!

- Most people are really into bitcoin. I’m not, but am curious. Is this a requirement to enjoy Nostr long-term? Maybe it will take more users to increase the popular topics

- What is a zap and how is it different from a sat?

#introductions

Welcome! I’m new here as well. What client are you using and do you like it so far? Damus.io is what I started with.

I R noob at this. Damus seems to be a legit iOS client.

What is everyone using on macOS?

Hello world! I’m new to Nostr.

How is everyone?

#introductions

Hi Nostr!