Frost essentially allows users to have disposable keys … freeing them to paste their “key shards” directly into proprietary apps and web apps alike (no extension needed) without fear of their “cold nsec” being compromised. 
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UX is key here. If it can be implemented so it's incredibly easy for non technical people then I'm all for it.
UX will be solved one way or the other…
Because “lost or compromised keys” is an existential threat for Nostr (one of only two that I see) and Frost is the only solution we have to really solve for this problem … UX will come.
And TBH …. businesses apps offering Nostr “login” will be smart to use frost by default, maybe exclusively, to avoid the liability of “handling nsecs in proprietary code” … so that will drive better UX also.
I’m gonna try to integrate Frost into my onboarding app … new users get instant Frost shards and a co-signing service and cold storage for their nsec out of the box…
I see only 2 EXISTENTIAL THREATS for global Nostr adoption … BOTH of which will be addressed in my (upcoming) onboarding client.
1: Unwanted content and users in feeds and searches : This is ALREADY the single biggest issue for social media users today, and why we see such exodus from traditional platforms. Nostr has yet to “fix” this in a consistent and sovereignty respecting manner for users across all clients.
2 : Lost or compromised private keys. This is a problem unique to Nostr, and inescapably embedded within its core architecture. Keys are NOT passwords, but the “resettable password” and “managed account” experience is what people expect, and what Nostr NEEDS in order to scale. And yet we STILL have no standards for key management or data transfer.
No worries. My onboarding app will fix these both. Stay tuned … 👀
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