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NIP-05 verification helps people find you on Nostr. But most verification services either:
NIP-05 verification helps people find you on Nostr. But most verification services either:
Cost money to host (VPS, database)
Require manual administration
Don't accept Bitcoin
I wanted a service that runs for $0/month, accepts Lightning payments, and is fully automated.
Someone already did it. It's called Anna's Archive. Most of what they list is open-access, but they also knowingly list copyrighted material, so they are stuck in a perpetual cat-and-mouse game with the domain registry and the NSA. No, thanks.
Everything that isn't under copyright — and everything that is — can already be viewed and downloaded from a website, as a file. The world didn't need another one of those. (Although we also provide a download utility, we are working to make it obsolete). The world needed someone to solve the problems those download-sites haven't solved.
Torrents are (since v2.0) hashed, but not signed. That means you can confirm that one torrent has the same content as another, but you can't determine the publisher. That means that you are reliant on centralized index repositories (such as Pirate Bay 🏴☠), to know if you have the correct, complete file, or just some garbage.
Files are a form of document archival, unlike highly-accessible events. Saving a book to a file essentially takes it out of active use. It's the equivalent of putting it in a cardboard box and storing it in the attic verses leaving it on the nightstand. The book on the nightstand is the one you talk about, scribble in, screenshot and share on social media. Everything else is just collecting dust. Keep all books you care about on your e-nightstand.
Everything should be atomized and just stay that way. There is no benefit to splitting something large up, according to an index, transporting it in pieces, and then reassembling it according to the index, to use it. Just leave the books in pieces. Store it in pieces. Comment on it, in pieces. Highlight parts of pieces. Share pieces. Analyze and search for pieces. Rearrange pieces within and remix pieces between indexes.
If you want something highly-decentralized and censorship-resistent, utilize a protocol people use to communicate about mundane things, and that isn't bound to any particular channel. Because Nostr events are signed and therefore verifiable in isolation, you can transport them over any medium and in any constellation: http, udp, cd-rom, tor, meshastic, radio, Bluetooth, e-mail, SMS, carrier pigeons... or torrents. And you can determine what the precise content of that transport is.
Unlike BitTorrent, which has been around a very long time, Nostr was designed by people who understood how Bitcoin works. They baked crytography, atomization, latent/passive distribution, decentralization, push-communication, and censorship-resistence right into NIP-01. It's all in there and doesn't have to be messily glued-on to the protocol, after the fact.
What this means for users: More stable encrypted messaging with fewer disconnections, especially on mobile devices. The Rust implementation reduces crash risks and battery drain from constant reconnection attempts.
This week: Bitchat replaces C Tor with the Rust Arti implementation for better reliability and performance. nostrdb-rs gains streaming fold queries that enable zero-allocation database operations. Listr receives a major refactor with NDK 3 beta migration and AI-assisted maintenance after a year of dormancy. Zeus ships 17 merged PRs focused on NIP-47 (Nostr Wallet Connect for remote Lightning control) fixes and Cashu improvements, while Primal Android adds wallet backup flows and NIP-92 (media dimensions for proper aspect ratios) support. A new draft NIP proposes Trusted Relay Assertions for standardized relay trust scoring.
Enable offline-first applications on the Nostr network
Leverage Nostr's existing relay infrastructure for document storage and sync
Allow applications to maintain local document stores that sync across devices
I believe native applications are the best path forward for "freedom-loving" apps. Native software offers:
An increasing number of websites lately are claiming to ban AI-generated content. This is a lie deeply tied to other lies.