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Public Key

npub1pkhzm90462y3cfat45m25nmz6p9ku0lw0ak4fqjttpy8qvfhrymqjlln8r

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsqmt3djh6a9zguy7466d42fa3dqjmw8lh87m25sf94sjrsxym3jdspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dspjwe9f

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Last Notes

2026-09-11 14:20:53 UTC

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I dunno. Gotta decide soon though I suppose.

2026-07-15 17:25:57 UTC

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So. What do I think of remote signers, assuming this one is typical...
Its surprising that they work through relays instead of having to punch a port-forwarding hole in my router. Dunno if this is better. Makes everything feel quite slow and I would think the constantly-open websocket to multiple devices would be quite draining on a relay. Don't currently run a relay myself though so I suppose that's someone else's problem.
Does seem to be leading to lots of timeouts. This particular chip seems to reboot itself a lot. Doesn't help that all Nostr clients are shit so it's hard to tell which thing is actually broken.
Using a relay to authenticate a post which then ends up on some other different relay is mind-bending. There's so many keys involved here. We have a key for the signer communications and then other keys for the things the signer actually signs and these aren't the same keys. This one even has some kind of key-for-deriving-keys, though I couldn't get that working coz I couldn't find a way to select which identity was in control of the app-link.
I think I understand better why it's more secure than pasting nsec into web-apps. Posting nsec isn't less secure than typing passwords into web-apps, and a well designed web-app which you trust shouldn't be doing anything bad with it that wouldn't also be just as bad from a native app or client which people put passwords into all the time. But with a bunker-connection between the app and the signer, you do retain the ability to revoke at any time. Don't have to build a whole new identity if the app misbehaves, can just revoke it's access and carry on.
Not sure if it's best to have this signer on a separate hardware like this or if just running one on the phone or desktop computer might be more efficient. Certainly it's taking up a USB power socket now.
Anyway, been interesting exploring what it all actually is. Lets see if I can avoid posting nsec anywhere else from now on.

2026-07-15 15:47:36 UTC

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Nostr.com doesn't apparently work at all on ironfox on Graphene. So can't use the signer or a a reckless nsec pasting there.
Seems okay here in nostrudel on ironfox though. Think this post from there will work.

2026-07-15 15:02:59 UTC

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Only way I managed to get it to post from this nsec was to wipe out the default tree it created by reflashing the device then make this nsec be the only one on the device.
Would have expected 'create app' to let you pick which identity was doing the signing but I guess it's always picking ID 0? 🤔 Can't see any other way to pick which identity is being used in an app connection.
Maybe it just isn't finished yet.

2026-07-15 14:41:46 UTC

Hummm, seem to have managed to sign in with a remote signer given to me by @nprofile…07gx but can I post with one?

2025-11-23 16:12:11 UTC

Thomas voegtlin talks about nostr spam. It's very censorship resistance means spam can't be stopped by moderators.
One way to stop spam is require proof of work before your client accepts a message. A large difficult hash.
But big hashing machines are more available to spammers than people.
Can't use likes or zaps cuz they can be faked with sybil attacks.
Instead: notaries and proveably burned satoshis.
Your public messages are classified as ham rather than spam if you burn enough money.
Nostr event types to prove it are suggested. Including burning to upvote others messages
Don't think I like deliberately burning the money, and seems to me a web of trust might work without doing that? Pay to post also peanizes there poor.
But it isn't really burned here, it's shaed out to miners to continue a subsidy when the block rewards run out. So paying miners and these notaries rather than really burning. Okay. Maybe better, but still makes messages mostly for the rich?
#bitfest #bitcoin #nostr
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2024-04-28 12:38:17 UTC

If the USA successfully drives all bitcoin and crypto companies out of the country, will that be good for countries that aren't the USA? IE: Most of the world?
Seems like it would be bad for the USA but maybe bad for America isn't good for everyone else.

2023-12-11 22:33:10 UTC

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🤔 Seems hardly any point in it being on-chain at all then if every request to move one ends in a call to a central Tether server.