Afternoon coffee, then back to building 🛠

Is anyone looking into using Nostr for internet-of-things? What if you had smart home devices (lights, locks, safes, cameras, etc...) that each had their own Nostr keypair, knew your Nostr public key, and could receive commands and return data such as a message ack or even a picture from your smart camera using a wrapper around DMs? I think that could be really powerful for making smart devices that are actually secure.

Having a phone number is all but a necessity in today's world. Many internet services require you to have one for 2-step verification. Messaging apps such as Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp require one as your account identifier. In many ways it's it's your centralized fiat personal identifier. Yet the level of security and privacy is laughable. Texts and calls are easily tapped and traced. Your location is viewable 24/7 by those "in charge". Not to mention how easy it is to perform a whole cornucopia of SIM attacks. This is legacy technology. And Nostr can fix it! Your keypair is your phone number for the 21 century. I'm excited to see an OAuth/OpenID-like spec for Nostr and for phone numbers to go the way of the dollar.

Want to see Bitcoin's price deflation in action? Check out this tool I made! It uses historical price data of Bitcoin and of common food and commodity items to graph the Bitcoin-denominated price over time.

Sat Dash

Check the very bottom of the page and select an item and area.

Check out this Bitcoin dashboard I made:

Sat Dash

(The graph section on the very bottom is broken, currently fixing it!)

Joe showing off our Lightning Network vending machine we made for @npub1eequ...at9s. It'll be live in Bitcoin Park for the Power of Lightning Summit on July 13th & 14th!