Living the #nostr life
Bitcoin self-custody tooling has existed for over a decade. Most people still use custodial services. The issue isn't missing features -- it's that every setup requires decisions normal people can't evaluate.
NIP-55 turned Android phones into Nostr signing hardware. What Amber actually does, how it compares to remote signing and hardware signers, and whether your phone is good enough.
NIP-96 bolted centralized file hosting onto a decentralized protocol. Blossom replaces it with content-addressed storage -- files identified by SHA-256 hash, mirrored across servers, verifiable by any client.
Tracing the full path of a Lightning zap from button press to settled payment — NIP-57 receipts, LNURL-pay, invoice generation, and why some zaps vanish.
That cryptic suffix on every shell command your AI writes? It's a 50-year-old hack born from wasted phototypesetter paper at Bell Labs.
