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Re:Nostr: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays by sph on Thursday January 26, 2023 @03:36AM (#34529210)
It does not tie into Bitcoin. It's just a very very simple protocol of clients sending and subscribing to pieces of data, and relays that dumbly (i.e. with little processing) send data across connected and subscribed clients.

It's like a very minimal version of ActivityPub. It takes an hour to go through the whole spec and addenda.

Then Jack Dorsey got interested, gave the project a big grant (in BTC), and a lot of crypto hype flew into it. But while it is a convenient excuse to say "crypto, therefore bad", the protocol is itself completely unrelated and IMO quite neat. There is a lot of potential for systems that anyone can comprehend in their totality in an afternoon.

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Re:Nostr: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays by larrysalibra on Thursday January 26, 2023 @04:49AM (#34529705)
The relationship to bitcoin besides being created by bitcoiners is that it uses Schnorr Signatures for the secp256k1 curve - the same curve as bitcoin.

https://bips.xyz/340

A Nostr account is identified by a public key, you follow accounts by following public keys and the ability to post as an account is controlled by the corresponding private key.

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Re:Nostr: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays by yonz on Thursday January 26, 2023 @11:32AM (#34533924)
Is there any place to find Public keys to follow?
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Re:Nostr: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays by rufusroflpunch on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:29PM (#34536296)
https://www.nostr.directory

This tool lets you broadcast your pub key on twitter using a specified format, and the app will add you to the directory, and you can use it to find others that have also done that.

Also, if you go to https://snort.social/new, you can enter your twitter handle, and it will find everyone from you're twitter follows that you're not already following and let you sign up to follow them all.

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Re:Nostr: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays by louloulou on Thursday January 26, 2023 @05:31PM (#34539830)
Does this mean I could use a bitcoin hardware wallet to store my nostr keys and sign my posts?
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Re:Nostr: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays by larrysalibra on Sunday January 29, 2023 @09:31AM (#34568438)
Yes, it does assume someone writes a client that enables this.
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