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.
```
curl -s -x socks5h://relay.8333.space:8882 https://nprofile1qqs8a8nk09fhrxylcd42haz8ev4cprhnk5egntvs0whafvaaxpk8plgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuwpnxvejuumsv93k2g6k9kr/v1/info --insecure | jq
```
I can't stress this enough: THE MINT RUNS BEHIND HTTPS!
The NWS entry relay can't read your traffic. It's encrypted. We can host public entry relays that can be used by anyone.
This means we can plug the entire internet to it 🌐.
Let's plug it into Cashu for now. Nutshell wallet supports socks5 proxies (that's how it uses Tor). By setting the public entry relay as the proxy, the wallet can now connect to a mint's npub/nprofile and communicate with it via NWS.
This is going to be so freaking cool. And it's going to be a lot more useful than just for Cashu. There are still bugs and issues that need to be ironed out but the code is coming out soon. Watch this space.
OMG, this is BIG, huge! Now I only need to deep dive to fully understand this.
I'm considering moving to Spain from another EU country. What are your thoughts about less expensive houses in Spain, less income taxes but that it will eventually catch up with ESG, war economy madness and the EU coumtries slipping into recession? Or the state of Spain itself like high youth unemployment?
I find it difficult to see it on a positive way because there's so few positive news.
Another question is to ask why Bitcoin? What does it solve?
Unfortunately this is not clear to a lot of people because of the use of jargon and a huge set of nonsense financial products that only fuel more debt and risk.
Great stoic mindset.
The Impact of Freedom of Speech: Ensuring Openness in Society | nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak
https://video.nostr.build/76755d47654cfa2a2db6dd254d0ea9ee2582a93144d3541569989ed0ae43137f.mp4
Bitcoin has a feature where everyone is allowed to do transactions which gives lots of freedom.
Banking has a bug where a central authority decides who gets to do a transaction which gives less freedom and damage.
Thank you. That is indeed a great benefit. Do businessess (also) find it a benefit to save in bitcoin?
Great recommndations! I'm currently into stoic philosophy and are reading The Daly Stoic by Ryan Holiday. Books #1 and #3 sound really interesting and I'm definitely going to read them. Thanks for rhe recommendation.
Here's the article on archive:
Perhaps for certain people. For most people it's saving, delaying spending, until they can buy the thing that they actually want/need.
We are doing our bit in the UK with nostr:npub1nqt6hg6k78la4uj0c0yc44s28t8nkgaaee7rdnrr0vszlul4wwdszsfpug
Onboarding new businesses daily.
https://primal.net/e/note1vhvyvp467t49tk86m5fpzva4n3ufquvvzs9l698h7eh0fu9s5eysla0pc8
Really interesting. How do you persuade them to accept bitcoin? There has to be a benefit for them, otherwise they're not interested.
Very true. I like telling people that they have to work twice for their money to info them: once to earn it and rhe second time to make sure the value doesn't lose too much purchasing power.
I agree and would love to, unfortunately a lot of Bitcoin communities are on Telegram with no alternative like e.g. Simplex.
I recommend Blue Wallet and Green Wallet for beginners. Blue Wallet is much simpler than Green wallet, so I recommend that one.
A few days ago I gave my first Bitcoin Workshop for Beginners to 11 people and we used Blue Wallet. I sent each person bitcoin on-chain but Blue Wallet crashed each time using the batch function. Then I tried to send each person individually, but it gave me an error about a fee rste I never saw before.. After that I sent it with Relai without issues.
I very much like Sparrow Wallet, but that is on a desktop, which is where most people do everything with and is less secure than a mobile wallet I guess.
Any suggestions for sending bitcoin to participants?