New top story on Hacker News: Nostr is a stupid simple P2P protocol that works, built by builders

Nostr is a stupid simple P2P protocol that works, built by builders
16 by kdragon | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I have been seeing a lot of shilling for mastadon lately, so I thought I would step in and shill Nostr for a bit. https://ift.tt/xSDsh1M Fun facts about Nostr: * Nostr stands for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". It is an odd acronym, but I like it. * Nostr uses websockets and relays to build a really simple P2P network. We also steal a few ideas from bitcoin (ECDSA ids, schnorr-signed events). * Relays are simply dumb data stores for events that clients publish and subscribe to. * Clients don't trust relays to be honest, so all events are self-signed. Your pubkey is your userid. * It is stupid simple to build a Nostr client. You can easily do it in less than 400 lines of JavaScript. And it runs in the browser. (shameless self plug) https://ift.tt/xYmjWTu * Nostr is powerful enough to host chat apps very easily. Here is a rip of Telegram, running on Nostr: https://anigma.io * There's a lot of fun things you can do with Nostr. Check out all these cool projects! https://ift.tt/SjtyrcO * We are constantly discussing how to improve the protocol. Come join the conversation here: https://ift.tt/TxfI0tS https://anigma.io https://damus.io https://ift.tt/fI1HVeP Thank you for reading my nostr shill post. I did not create nostr, nor do I get any monies for promotion. I just think it's really cool and I have a lot of fun building stuff that punches though nats. If you have any questions about nostr please feel free to ask. Also, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I hope we're all feeling fat and sassy today. :-D

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