I see more and more non-nostr apps publishing on @Zapstore! Like @CruxCoach, a climbing app, which recommends zapstore as best place to get the app, and use nostr DMs for feedback.

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CruxCoach — Zapstore

Browse climbs, control your Kilter Board via Bluetooth, log ascents, import your Kilter logbook, and track your progress. No third-party cloud serv...

The usual covenant debate on Bitcoin starts with Script and soft forks. PIPEs v2 starts somewhere stranger: it asks whether a spend condition can be enforced by making the signing key itself unavailable until a proof exists. That move shifts the burden away from on-chain verification and into witness encryption, committee setup, a huge off-chain artifact, and the engineering needed to bind them together. The result is one of the most interesting proposals in current Bitcoin research because it enlarges the design space without asking Bitcoin consensus to change. View article →

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Three architectural families have broken an assumption that was treated as a law of cloud architecture for two decades: that the machine running a computation must see the data the computation runs on. Homomorphic encryption operates on ciphertexts, secure multi-party computation distributes the work across non-colluding participants, and trusted execution environments isolate the work inside a hardware enclave opaque to the machine's owner. The privacy architecture of the next decade will be built on their compositions. View article →

Working on making marmot transport layer agnostic.

400 optech editions, crazy! Thanks a lot to all contributors! View quoted note →

Reminder, Marmot community call in 30 minutes. View quoted note →

There is now an official internet standard that makes it possible for Tor onion services to get verified security certificates the same way any website does, automatically, for free.

IETF Datatracker

RFC 9799: Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Extensions for ".onion" Special-Use Domain Names

This document defines extensions to the Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) to allow for the automatic issuance of certificates to ...

Bitcoin settles payments without counterparty permission, and Nostr coordinates action without censorship. Together they enable spot transactions and real-time coordination across the parallel economy. What they cannot do is create credit, and without credit, the parallel economy cannot finance production across time. View article →