In a few days, I'll be making the case that the nostr relay network is a distributed consensus system for the delivery and receipt of cryptographic messages. I believe this consensus system may be far more valuable than the social-media use case. It solves a few important problems in cryptography protocols, and is far more efficient than publishing data to the blockchain.

Yo @hodlbod how do I pump my trust score up? I gotta get rid of these rookie numbers.

Virgin Primal: - android app won't load - web app won't update my profile - breaks when launched as PWA Chad Coracle: - sexy PWA experience, no need for an app. - actually loads and updates my profile. - respects PWA and hides browser interface

Oh man, coracle is amazing. See you later primal.

I may have found a use case for the abandoned "subject" field that nostr notes had with NIP-13. It would be great if there was a standard "content id" with every note, so that you could reference notes by their content, rather than an absolute id. The content id would be a sha256 hash of the content field and pubkey. What this would enable is replaceable tags for notes. Imagine you could in-place update the tags on a note, similar to a replaceable event. This would open up so many possibilities: - Easily delete a note by adding a delete tag. - Easily update a note by adding a ref tag to the new note. - Update a note's metadata based on the comments. This may be good for special protocols (like zap giveaways). This could also help relays with storage, as they could choose to discard notes with older metadata. I would mainly want this for a simpler way to delete messages, as the current NIP-09 solution is a terrible burden on clients and not well respected by relays. What other cool things could you, if you could change tags on a note while also preserving the reference id?

My primal experience on mobile has not been great. The app is failing to load new posts or let me sign in. It seems like the app is hanging on connecting to a server somewhere, this is before connecting to a relay. I gave up on the app and tried using a PWA. Primal web doesn't seem to render properly, and the profile button is unclickable so I can't login. Also I really don't like how it leaks a bunch of metadeta about my DMs in cleartext. That is really not great. The sonar loading animation looks really cool though.

oh man primal is pretty slick

I may have inadvertently created an anonymous e2e encrypted coin mixing protocol that runs over nostr.

what android client are y'all using?

is nostr a good place to crowd-source training data for an LLM?

Amethyst is getting really, really good. (also mid journey is amazing)

Badges are great.

Verifying my Nostr Nests identity: EGTbQaipFehwiKUtArELuI3DY-9x2puUTYY_r5otwfs

Nests

Nests - Live Audio Rooms on Nostr

Host and join live audio conversations on the decentralized Nostr network. No algorithms, no gatekeepers, just real conversations.

It's fun watching nostr evolve. So many cool things being built.

Paid relays are cheap enough that you could easily zap newbies the funds needed to join them. There's a cool circular economy happening here.

I like how nostr is slowly becoming tidal tech support.

What are the tiny icons below your PFP about (in Amethyst)?

The shitcoin spam is unrelenting. I hope that nostr figures out a solution. Because twitter /discord / telegram are losing this battle.