Square peg, round hole
A brief ramble on where the protocol is going, and how we might use it more effectively.
hodlbod
hodlbod@coracle.social
Christian Bitcoiner and developer of coracle.social. Learn more at info.coracle.social.
If you can't tell the difference between me and a scammer, use a nostr client with web of trust support.
Groups on Coracle — finally!
Coracle now has closed groups! Read about why I built them the way I did, what's possible, and what's coming.
NIP 44 Update
A summary of Cure53's audit of the NIP 44 encryption standard. A report on a report, if you will.
Relays, Encryption, and Groups
On relays, encryption, and how they work together to create a "good enough" private group solution.
Where is my coracle going?
A meandering vision statement for the future of the Coracle nostr client.
DMs are dead, long live DMs!
A survey of current work on building encrypted chat into nostr — and a review of the idea of building it on SimpleX.
Our options for custom feeds
Various algorithm solutions, including client-based, relay-based, and list-based feeds each have unique merits. It's also possible that the conventional "infinite scroll" feed is inherently flawed and better options exist.
Relays as Routers: Keeping Nostr Extensions Decentralized
Instead of allowing non-standard data services like search engines or recommendations gatekeep relays, flip the script and make relays the gatekeepers instead. The addition of a single feature can open the door for relays to support any extension at no additional cost.
Let's not build a digital panopticon ok?
Just as walled gardens have managed us in the past to sway political opinion or pump the bags of Big X, an open, interoperable content graph will make building a repressive administrative state almost too easy.
A Proposal for Private Groups
An elegant approach to private groups - access control based on a shared, hosted private key, rather than cooperative relays.
A talk I gave on Coracle at FUTO
On relays, white-labeling, and what I accomplished
How I learned to stop worrying and love the ostrich
My Nostr story
Building Relay Browsing Into Client Interfaces
How should clients represent relays in user interfaces? Are they dimensions? coordinates? layers? buttons? checkboxes? topics? people? I don't know.
POW and Micropayments
Just some thoughts about the tradeoffs between POW and micropayments on Nostr
A Vision for Nostr
What Mastodon got wrong, and what I hope Nostr gets right
What Nostr is Bad At
How the CAP theorem applies to Nostr