The problem or the solution?

I have a simple stupid idea

Problem description:

Paying services in order to only make their service available for their paying customers, force you to create an account. Then they can track your movements under your account.

Solution:

Service company generates a 1 private-public keypair. It gives the public key to only those who pay. Then paying users can send a signed packet to the service to authenticate without blowing their privacy.

All paying users use the same public key.

Service can verify with private key.

At each month, they regenerate, and give it to paying customers.

What do you think?

#asknostr #nostr #grownostr #dev #code #privacy

Why wouldn’t they?

Sure, I understand different tools for different use cases, yet people as a whole will gravitate towards what ever is easiest. So meeting people in the real world and swapping contacts, we do that in many ways, when we are at conferences, telegram is the place that is suggested to me most often to contact.

This is purely out of convenience. This is where I find issue.

Humans are creatures of convenience.

Look at any grass in the city and you’ll usually find a dirt path cutting through it, while there is a perfectly good paved path to protect the grass and keep it nice next to it.

It doesn’t matter what the defined use cases are people will use it in whatever way is most convenient.

My point this morning was I wasn’t expecting to see signal under attack for enabling privacy by default for millions of people. My mom understands signal. My grandma understands signal. This is why it is effective.

The main use case being large chats I’m not so sure about…. Sure they are there but far too many people use telegram as their daily driver now.

Ok now how many of you actually do that? Facebook is social media, yet 2.1 billion people communicate with messenger as part of their daily private messenger.

If we don’t make privacy by default, then we find that people will use whatever is most convenient, even if it means giving away their privacy.

What you said is all valid and these are ways to use it without compromising your privacy, but the average person does not and will not think about it until it too late.

Bitcoiners slamming signal while championing and using telegram was not on my bingo card for 2024.

Telegram is not private by default.

Can anyone explain why bitcoiners love telegram so much? Your privacy for the sake of convenience.

GM Nostr ☕

The war on Bitcoin/crypto usage has been stepped up significantly in recent weeks.

What are your thoughts?

Are you working out a new strategy?

Supporting the tools that are still working?

Think everything will just 'blow over'?

Have a good one 🧡⚡

Then don’t use clients that censor. The bot has no effect in most clients.

How much of that will now go through joinmarket?

This means me crying at instructions cause I know I'll screw something up. -_-

What is this? For self custody ln wallet?

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Wrong choice of words. Meant to say client, not platform.

Sounds like your gripe is with the implementation and builds? We are early days and nostr clients had similar inefficiencies at the start (and quite frankly we aren't there yet). I think the underlying ideas and intentions are sound. It's more of the execution that needs refinement, evolution, and further decentralization, or at the very least, more foss implementation.