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It does not tie into Bitcoin. It's just a very very simple protocol of clients sending and subscribing to pieces of data, and relays that dumbly (i.e. with litt
by sph 4y ago
It does not tie into Bitcoin. It's just a very very simple protocol of clients sending and subscribing to pieces of data, and relays that dumbly (i.e. with little processing) send data across connected and subscribed clients.
It's like a very minimal version of ActivityPub. It takes an hour to go through the whole spec and addenda.
Then Jack Dorsey got interested, gave the project a big grant (in BTC), and a lot of crypto hype flew into it. But while it is a convenient excuse to say "crypto, therefore bad", the protocol is itself completely unrelated and IMO quite neat. There is a lot of potential for systems that anyone can comprehend in their totality in an afternoon.
- larrysalibra 4y agoThe relationship to bitcoin besides being created by bitcoiners is that it uses Schnorr Signatures for the secp256k1 curve - the same curve as bitcoin. https://bips.xyz/340 https://bips.xyz/340 A Nostr account is identified by a public key, you follow accounts by following public keys and the ability to post as an account is controlled by the corresponding private key.
- louloulou 4y agoDoes this mean I could use a bitcoin hardware wallet to store my nostr keys and sign my posts?
- larrysalibra 4y agoYes, it does assume someone writes a client that enables this.
- yonz 4y agoIs there any place to find Public keys to follow?
- rufusroflpunch 4y agohttps://www.nostr.directory https://www.nostr.directory This tool lets you broadcast your pub key on twitter using a specified format, and the app will add you to the directory, and you can use it to find others that have also done that. Also, if you go to https://snort.social/new https://snort.social/new, you can enter your twitter handle, and it will find everyone from you're twitter follows that you're not already following and let you sign up to follow them all.