Happy New Year to you, Mav! 🎉🥂

I kinda don't. Once you claw your way through all the bots, trolls, and disinformation agents, the actual people who choose to remain on Twitter are really low quality. I feel like importing them into Nostr would be a net negative for the community. I would prefer that those real people leave Twitter on their own and find their way to Nostr. I feel like people who have made that choice, and found their way to Nostr on their own would be ready for something better, and be valuable additions to our club.

Twitter is pretty much shit on my shoe at this point.

Primal is a very nice client. It's great for attracting and retaining users from across the spectrum, including normies. That's really important for Nostr's growth. Personally, although I've used Primal many times, I always find myself going back to Amethyst. Different strokes for different folks. 🤷‍♂️ It's great that we've got so many client options as it reinforces Nostr's decentralized foundation. I'm excited to see what's to come in 2025! 🎉🥂

After you, next up is Alaska and then Hawaii!

You on Pacific time? I'm Mountain time, so we just had our New Year celebration about a half hour ago. Before your 2024 is up, I want to thank you for providing auth.nostr1.com for our inboxes. Making it free is a classy move that many people have benefitted from. Cheers 🥂

You're leaving Alby? I left them about 4 or 5 months ago. What have you decided to do for a wallet? We talked about a bunch of different options, but you hadn't made a decision then. I'm nosy so I wanna know what you're moving to 😉

2024 was an interesting year. Some of it was bad, but more of it was good. And one of the good things is that I found Nostr, and have had the pleasure of meeting and talking to all of you. Let's step forward together, and make 2025 a great year for us all. 🎉🎆🎇

Happy New Year to everyone one of you!

NTCS? I don't think so

Thanks! 🎉

When I closed out my channels, this is the suggestion Alby made:

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The best way to close a channel is to do it while it is online, click on the 3 dots on the right (see screenshot), then execute a normal closure (Not a force closure).

The funds on your channels will go to your Savings Balance (which is the onchain side of your Self-custodial wallet).

Then you can withdraw the funds from your Savings Balance just as any other onchain transaction.

Pretty sure you just initiate a regular channel close, and then start over with a new node once your close-out funds are confirmed on your wallet. When I closed out my Alby Cloud account, that's what the process was. It was very easy.

Any idea if the issue with bunker or Amber is going to be resolved soon? I think logging in with your nsec is too great of a security compromise to risk.

And Sparrow is compatible with a lot of hardware wallets. You'd be hard pressed to find a hardware wallet you can't use with Sparrow with!

Sparrow is a fine software wallet, for sure. Packed with features, yet easy enough for anyone to use. I only wish they had a mobile version. I've found that for mobile, Nunchuk is the mskt secure, and most usable wallet. Mycelium is close #2 tho it doesn't support NFC signing. You have to do the QR thing which isn't the end of the world. The Electrum mobile wallet is good if you're accustomed to using Electrum desktop and want a similar companion app, but it's missing a lot of features that make Electrum great.

That's kinda what I was thinking, but I'm not an nostr expert. I think it would be incredibly difficult to to exact the relay infrastructure from the Nostr protocol. The relays are the heart of the protocol. And I don't understand what sort of system would be able replace them. It would fundamentally change the nature of the entire system.

If we got rid of relays, what would replace them? And what are the implications for the decentralized foundation of the protocol?

Which Trezor model are you talking about? I haven't really looked too hard at the Trezor because it seemed like it was more expensive than I wanted to spend. If they have one at about the $100 mark, I'd definitely look into it.

Electrum is a great wallet, especially the desktop version. But it can be a bit intimidating for new users. It's got a lot of features that basically makes it a Swiss Army Knife, but those functions are often hid behind different screens and menus, so it can be difficult to find what you're looking for. The mobile version is a bit more scaled back, and focuses on core functionality, but even so, it's not as friendly and intuitive as many other wallets. I consider it a power user wallet, along with Mycelium, and Sparrow. It's all about finding the one that you're most comfortable with as they all do what you need.

I saw a metal plate system somewhere that came with two plates, and you need both plates to read the seed. One plate was completely blank, and the other had the grid and little holes for each grid square. The idea was that you'd put the two plates together and punch your seed letters, then seperate the plates and store them in different locations. The blank plate would have all the punch marks but no notation or indication of the letters, and so you'd need the other plate to reveal what the punch marks represented. I was impressed with the ingenuity.

Single-sig with two metal backups is probably sufficient in practical terms. Multi-sig may be technically more secure and safe on paper. I think it really depends on your risk tolerance, and how much complexity you're willing to handle.

I see the value, but I also recognize the added complexity. For a hot wallet, I think single-sig makes more sense. But for cold storage, multi-sig is probably the smarter choice.