“We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.” ~ Eric Hughes, 1993…...

With #bitcoin you can have a self-custodial wallet that exists on the ledger because it's maintained by multiple nodes. With #nostr, it's possible to have a self-custodial wallet that exists in the network because the data is replicated across redundant relays. In both instances,...

A major update to #nostr #safebox. The code now supports multiple mints and automatically selects the keyset with the sufficient amount to make a payment. Also, I’ve done some fine-tuning to make sure safebox data is automatically replicated across relays. Finally, I’ve started to add the code…...

I am bullish on #nostr because now I see ways to actually implement things that I simply regarded up to now as virtue-signalling bullshit. For example: data sovereignty data interoperability data stewardship data portability open platforms independence from apps, vendors, operators permissionless blah, blah … #nostr might not be perfect,...