Oh that's awesome. Can I ask, what's the utility of adding Nostr here? Is it easier, better auth? I.e. a challenge to the email way of doing things?
Thanks for the pointer, I'll check nostr:nprofile1qqsggm4l0xs23qfjwnkfwf6fqcs66s3lz637gaxhl4nwd2vtle8rnfqpypmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuetfde6kuer6wasku7nfvuh8xurpvdjj7qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghxcctwvs666g7h out more.
The reason Nostr growth is stagnant is mostly cultural, not technical, IMO.
Sure there is still some deep weirdness with the UX compared to the centralized services (like being unable to delete or undo posts/likes/reposts, or that the phone clients still have weird little bugs and are still under featured in some basic ways).
Remember, there was a LOT of excitement here not long ago, and many people left after joining despite the fact that it kept getting better. Which should tell us something, no?Why was this? My guess is because there's only like three topics of discussion here:
1. Bitcoiners talking about how great Bitcoin is
2. Bitcoiners talking about how great Nostr is
3. Bitcoiners talking about politics
There's outliers who break the mold for sure (and we need more of them), but even Bitcoiners are interested in other things and going where people outside of Bitcoin are, and so even most Bitcoiners left.
In many ways Nostr is more fully featured compared to Twitter/X, and in other ways it's even less buggy, but despite the bugs people still use it because that's where so many interesting people are and talking about all sorts of things. Most people are fine dealing with the bots and whatnot and for very few is censorship a real selling point (for now).
Also, this awesome handcrafted blog was hugely helpful to me while thinking through all this: https://gwern.net/ref/gwern-design
If you want a flexible template, checkout my site's Github: https://github.com/thebrandonlucas/blu
I've managed to get it to where you can just upload things to the `md` folder as markdown, and it auto-deploys to my site's VPS via a Github action and it just works. But because it's written in svelte, you have full flexibility to code up whatever else you want if needed. I spent a lot of time building it that way so I could have the low barrier to publishing while also having the full power of a webapp if I later wanted it. Sounds at least on track for what you're looking for.
There should be a "request edit" NIP, "git" not "got" haha.
This is cool but FOSS alternatives already exist for GitHub, such as Gitea. Pretty easy to setup and already mirrors a lot of GitHub functionality and fairly widely used. Why reinvent the wheel just to integrate Nostr? And if we do want to integrate Nostr with a Got service, why not just fork Gitea and add the Nostr stuff to it?
That phrasing, without doubt, had an immense positive impact on the world's changing views on slavery. Even the fact that you feel the need to call it out as hypocrisy is downstream of the effects of that "all men are created equal" statement. Be careful about ridiculing the foundations of your own belief system just because its creators were not as "evolved" into it as you are.
If you just want to do blog/article posts, quick and dirty way is Substack or Ghost. If you want more flexibility/code it yourself, HTML + Caddy on a VPS is straightforward.
Let me know if I can help, I went down the rabbit hole on all these tradeoffs recently for my own site.
You can get a phone number or transfer your current one with jmp.chat without needing a sim. Then get the cheogram app to use it. It forwards calls and texts you receive. The UX is terrible but it works pretty very well once you get used to it, and you can pay with bitcoin
Made a package for the Bitcoin UI devs out there:
Try it out here: https://bitcoin-qr.blu.cx/
Source code: https://github.com/thebrandonlucas/bitcoin-qr
In the new mutinywallet design, how can I swap my onchain to lightning? Trying to do this in the mutinynet version of the app
"It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it. […] No, we do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves."
-- Karl Popper, On Freedom
A very good a website explaining Payjoin, its privacy benefits, its benefits with Lightning funding of channels in one transaction and supported wallets https://payjoin.org
If you want to learn more in depth: https://brandonlucas.net/articles/bitcoin/payjoin
Wrote an article on the benefits of payjoin for Bitcoin:
Ah, so using nostr wallet connect! But based on this PR implementing is definitely non-trivial 😅
Awesome job though, this ux improvement is a game changer
Woah, would love to see how this works under the hood
Where is the startup working on lightning micropayments for AI-based requests?
Also note that you can do this with your own self-hosted node if you’d like to as well (doesn’t necessarily have to be a Voltage node)
You could also charge flexible subscriptions for usage of advanced features through the use of something like LSAT
Ironically, he seems to be working on cbdc’s now: https://www.snb.ch/en/mmr/papers/id/working_paper_2021_03