In bitcoin’s early years, a lot of people debated the theoretical functioning of it with a critical lens, but then in practice it just worked and bootstrapped for the next 15 years and counting. It was simple and elegant enough to work despite being rough around the edges, caught all the right types of mindshare, and grew.

Nostr has a similar pattern so far. Lots of people critique it. And galaxy brains are trying to build more complex alternative digital identity schemes without much shipping. Meanwhile Nostr is out in the field bootstrapping with users and developers and companies.

nostr will be spammed even more. we will have to use web of trust, zaps, and relay access controls to filter spam

Here's an #asknostr for today as I finish up a round of research. I've already looked into this a lot myself but it's ever-changing and there are people way deeper than me into this.

Frictions and risks related to key management are often cited by critics as one of Nostr's limitations. You lose your key, and you lose your identity. Plugging your key into a bunch of different apps is not ideal, since the more you do, the bigger the potential attack surface is for a leak.

Restricting your usage to a couple apps or browser extensions, and using them to sign for other applications, seems to be the best method so far for minimizing the attack surface.

Looking beyond that, what sorts of protocol updates or app services are ideal to help minimize the frictions and risks of key management while keeping the protocol itself super simple as it is?

I must not add complexity.

Complexity is the code killer.

Complexity is the little death that brings total stagnation.

I will refine my code.

I will embrace the abstractions that emerge from the complexity.

When the complexity has gone, I turn the inner eye to see its path.

Only clean code will remain.

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thinking about doing a cleansing ritual, i.e. stopping the auto-renewal for the seven dozen domains that I have and don't use 😭

If you go off into a far far forest you'll probably die of malaria or starvation

I have changed my spending habits a lot since studying bitcoin. Got rid of the huge house, the vacation home, fancy cars, etc but I still am willing to spend when it comes to making memories with my family. You can always get more money, but you can’t get back your youth and time.

😇

thats insecure brah

Lol oh dear.

The 2024 version of "emailing things to yourself".

I connect my phone with USB.

new android lifehack discovered! create a simplex contact for desktop, with the cool ass simplex cli, send files back and forth with your mobile with ease 🎇

#simpleX is quickly becoming one of my fav apps, i hope mor telegramers move to dis

Security should go up long before number go up.

Awesome let's see this decentralized music if yours.

not centralisation, CONSISTENCY

> In a distributed system, achieving consistency falls upon the consistency model and consistency (enforcing) mechanisms. Consistency models determine which data and operations are visible to a user or process, and which kind of read and write operations are supported on them.

consistency means that everywhere you ask, you get the same answer

nostr's design has weak consistency

not ZERO CONSISTENCY

please, i beg you, go actually refresh your memory about the nature of distributed systems problems, especially the CAP theorem

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GM ☕️ and PV 🌺