TRUST MINIMIZED NSECBUNKER w/ FROST 🔐🥶

Here's a demo of my new Nsecbunker implementation with FROST signatures! This works by creating a 2-of-2 frost signature scheme, which means that unless both a malicious client and bunker conspire to rug you at the same time, you are safe. 🧵

Finally, we are confident enough to invite interested users to test Keychat.

Huge milestone: First demo of Nostr Web Services (NWS) bringing TCP to Nostr. With NWS, you can host any existing web application on Nostr without having to use DNS or even announce your public IP to the world, simply by sharing your service's npub (or nprofile).

Try it out the demo yourself. Here is a Cashu test mint running with NWS. Let's use curl to retrieve the mint's information. The request travels from your computer to the public NWS entry relay, then through nostr to the service's NWS exit relay. At the other end is a Cashu mint with HTTPS encryption.

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THE MONEY IS IN THE NOSTR!

👉 Create a new npub AND DOING NOTHING ELSE, no WoS, no nostr-wallet-connect pairing,... NOTHING

☑️ receive zaps

☑️ send zaps

☑️ and most importantly ACCESS MY WALLET FROM ANY CLIENT ON ANY DEVICE

these zaps are verifiable, way faster -- they are immediate (since the sending of the ecash is the zap, instead of waiting for a LN node to, maybe, publish a zap receipt)

Just like our contact lists follows us around, just like our profile data and our shitposts pops up in any nostr application, now so does our sats.

the money is in the nostr!

Despite it being easier to self-host XMPP and less expensive on resources, Matrix is more popular. Why?

The real reason Matrix is popular is because corporate and FOSS developers like the encrypted group chats for their internal use. (XMPP is NOT encrypted group chats). So then devs host a Matrix room to answer end-user questions, and having all these rooms encourages overall adoption.

The part that's not usually mentioned, is that only the devs usually use self-hosted Matrix servers, and the vast majority of the public uses Matrix.org which is on Cloudflare with Gmail verification.

In theory Matrix is decentralized, but in the real world, everyone gets Cloudflare metadata surveillance, and uses the same Element client.

Here's my core message:

Try to be Self-Sovereign with what you're doing.

If you're hosting a website, 1 core VPS for email, whatever. Then host your own XMPP/Matrix. XMPP uses so little resources, it's near free.

If a VPS is really not for you, even if you pay someone like me $100 to set it up:

If you think Nostr’s user growth is too slow, take a look at this book. Web protocols also experienced the ‘gradually, then suddenly’ process.