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…I vouched it. Redundancy in download traffic makes sense, although NIP 77 should help with this: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/77.md I think I see Nostr as having some of the best points of both decentralization and…

comment by iamnothere · 2026-10-17 · in We don't want decentralized systems, we want small ones

…most on Nostr don't really believe in the idea that information can be owned in the first place. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2156 for discussion around the NIP.

comment by cykros · 2026-10-11 · in Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement

Yes. Here are some specifications that describe it: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/17.md and https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/59.md

comment by kevinak · 2026-03-29 · in Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small

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Mapping Nostr keys to DNS-based internet identifiers

story by gjvc · 2026-01-15 · 0 comments

…concepts: Original Author posts a kind:1 note with a question A bot sends a kind:1985 note (NIP-32 https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/32.md ) that labels the content. It can be done by the author (self-label), by an app, or…

comment by digitalbase · 2025-12-16 · in Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr

It's actually advised to use 3/4 relays in your clients Using NIP-65 ( https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/65.md ) you can broadcast a note to the network to mention your preferred relays. Most clients fetch that note when…

comment by digitalbase · 2025-12-16 · in Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr

…system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." [1]: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/01.md

comment by hugs · 2025-10-12 · in Nostr and ATProto (2024)

…the direct message itself. You'd be speaking about nip17. Which i've been mis-speaking as nip19. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/17.md Notice that nip44 IS the standard. again, nip04 is deprecated, and should be treated…

comment by vnuge · 2025-09-21 · in Nostr

…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbt3jL1Ms0w This also helps understand the whole basic concept: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/01.md

comment by N-Krause · 2025-09-19 · in Nostr

…protocol - Nostr has the capability to send bitcoin between users via the lightning network via https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/57.md It takes more effort to use nostr than it does anything relatively more centralized…

comment by synesso · 2025-08-09 · in Testing Bitchat at the music festival

…Nostr protocol. It can help us to shape both encryption and global identity to achieve your idea. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips

comment by kehiy · 2025-07-26 · in The future is not self-hosted

…the spec, and it seems like they just tiebreak on time and hash and throw away the losing commit: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/001c516f72943081...

comment by miloignis · 2025-07-10 · in White Noise – secure and private messenger

…NIP-04 or NIP-17?" (I'm a little surprised that wasn't already in the FAQ for the project.) [1]: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/001c516f7294308143515a494a35213fc45978df/EE.md [2]: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/mas…

comment by hugs · 2025-07-10 · in White Noise – secure and private messenger

…that also has domain based verification, but it opens up the door for anyone with domain to do it. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/05.md

comment by nout · 2025-04-22 · in A new form of verification on Bluesky

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Nostr is public key microblogging that works

story by ynniv · 2024-12-22 · 14 comments

nostr is the hackers microblog. Just sign things and relay them: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/01.md https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42489954

comment by ynniv · 2024-12-22 · in Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers

What really centralizes Nostr is Nip-26 https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/26.md Once you start requiring (thispubkey == thatpubkey) you make it so all relay operators have to index their entire repository of messages to…

comment by evbogue · 2024-05-23 · in Nostr is not decentralized nor censorship-resistant

…decentralization is still a goal: https://raw.githack.com/dtonon/oracolo/master/examples/fiatj... https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/65.md Still, the short answer to your question would be "yes."

comment by jron · 2024-05-21 · in Show HN: Oracolo – A minimalist Nostr blog in a single HTML file

…comeback. NIP-13 [1] also has the ability to use POW to limit bot activity. Thanks for sharing! [1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/13.md

comment by jron · 2024-05-21 · in Show HN: Oracolo – A minimalist Nostr blog in a single HTML file

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/26.md NIP-26 (and if there is anything else similar) is one to point to here. Once you, the developer, are required to implement (thiskey === thatkey) a relay operator has to index the…

comment by evbogue · 2024-02-25 · in How Does Bluesky Work?

…a million different and often competing ideas. It's very active, but moving in 196 directions: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pulls

comment by sph · 2024-02-25 · in How Does Bluesky Work?

…for a bunch of possibilities, and is the only one that is required[1] to be implemented. [0] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips#list [1] https://nostr.com/the-protocol/nips

comment by vegabook · 2024-01-22 · in Why isn't Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?

For you and others following. Common in early nostr apps. The web-extension spec is defined in https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/07.md . Most apps check for window.nostr, then fail silently when it's missing or blocked.…

comment by vnuge · 2023-12-21 · in Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr

…more paranoid users that want a self hosted networked approach. But there are others listed here https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/07.md Finally, I wholly dislike the practice of offering an option of entering an nsec. Use…

comment by vnuge · 2023-12-21 · in Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr

…problem is tackled by an improvement to the protocol that was recently introduced called "NIP-65": https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/65.md The TLDR is that when a Nostr client supports NIP-65, it broadcasts to all known…

comment by KoftaBob · 2023-11-20 · in RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information

…to start, have a look at the NIPS [1] and of course at the awesome-nostr [2] list on GitHub! [1]: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips [2]: https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr

comment by ibz · 2023-11-20 · in RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information

…apps using it. The nostr protocol is defined by a series of NIPs (Nostr implementation possibilites https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips ), the most basic of which can be implemented in a client or a relay in 50-100 lines of code in any…

comment by Heliodex · 2023-10-25 · in Ask HN: What is the next great online community?

…the user who sent the zap. It's all described by NIP-57, a spec I put together to support this: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/57.md I was working on c-lightning at the time and I thought it would be really cool to…

comment by jb55 · 2023-09-01 · in Why I’m betting on Nostr

Afaik there is no key rollover story or recovery. I know it’s been discussed and I found this PR: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/637 KERI sounds interesting, I’ll read up on that. Maybe you can review that PR and share some…

comment by unboxingelf · 2023-09-01 · in Why I’m betting on Nostr

…how a protocol is being developed as it's all very transparent, simple and easy to follow here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips

comment by dewey · 2023-09-01 · in Why I’m betting on Nostr

…NIP-72 (like https://satellite.earth/ ) you basically get a simple reddit alternative [1]: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips

comment by konart · 2023-08-31 · in Mastodon Is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media – In a Good Way

…is effectively how nostr works. you generate a public/private keypair. the keys are bech32 encoded. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/19.md

comment by unboxingelf · 2023-07-22 · in Why even let users set their own passwords?

…closet, and interact with thousands of others doing the same (at the cost of a static IP address)? https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/65.md

comment by anothernostrich · 2023-06-10 · in The case for the decentralization of online forums

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Secure Communication with Deniability for Nostr

story by hardenedvault · 2023-06-08 · 1 comment

…https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35852516 [2] https://aosabook.org/en/v1/telepathy.html [3] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips [4] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1peUSMsvFGvqD5yKh3GprskLC...…

comment by rektide · 2023-05-09 · in Where Did Personal Computing Go Wrong (2020)

…to start building & iterating from is all the wins, is the Bazaar to the ambitious Cathedrals. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips Nostr is by far the most malleable, most open set of possibilities, the most grow able, of the social…

comment by rektide · 2023-05-01 · in Nostr – Decentralized social network

…unpolished. The Amethyst client is slow at times. But the pace of development is incredible. [1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/01.md

comment by haarts · 2023-05-01 · in Nostr – Decentralized social network

…and what a huge roster of incredibly smart & sharp "Nostr Implementation Possibilities," ( https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips ). What a beautiful phrase that captures so much essence of where we are: finding possibilities. Right now,…

comment by rektide · 2023-04-24 · in Ask HN: Will you become active on BlueSky?

…to cover the metadata for images and media including being able to use torrents for file hosting. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/94.md

comment by anarchogeek · 2023-04-24 · in Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

…clients will start implementing this shortly. [0] https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip [1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/65.md

comment by leesalminen · 2023-04-24 · in Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

…welcome to join us in the conversation and work with us to try and solve these hard problems! https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pulls PS- I don't think the web is effectively controlled by large companies. Email is a different story…

comment by leesalminen · 2023-04-24 · in Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

Yes, you delete by appending a delete event: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/7d792055372ce1af... Then clients and relays SHOULD act as if the referenced event is deleted. This is different than MUST, probably because there’s no…

comment by thinkmassive · 2023-04-13 · in Don’t record your social life on an append-only social network (2022)

…does it. They released Nip05 over a year ago. Not sure why bluesky didn't just copy their work tbh https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/05.md

comment by itslennysfault · 2023-03-07 · in Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky

…you potus@whitehouse.gov vp@whitehouse.gov @whitehouse.gov (points to whatever was assigned to "_") https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/05.md

comment by itslennysfault · 2023-03-07 · in Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky

…They just use a json file in the .well-known directory of the domain that contains your public key. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/05.md

comment by itslennysfault · 2023-03-07 · in Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky

…verification. Nip-05 describes how it's done and is successfully implemented in most Nostr clients: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/05.md

comment by djschnei · 2023-03-07 · in Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky

Similar to how the nostr protocol does it: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/05.md

comment by KoftaBob · 2023-03-07 · in Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky

…product is going to cause longstanding damage & an inability to grow this organic system out right. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips

comment by rektide · 2023-03-05 · in Jack Dorsey has set a 10 btc bounty for Nostr based alternative to GitHub

Nostr is this protocol ( https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/01.md ): Events and signatures Each user has a keypair. Signatures, public key, and encodings are done according to the Schnorr signatures standard for the curve…

comment by xiphias2 · 2023-03-04 · in Jack Dorsey has set a 10 btc bounty for Nostr based alternative to GitHub

…of keys here. I don’t think any json serializer would change the order of items in an array, right? https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/01.md

comment by leesalminen · 2023-02-05 · in Nostr.how – A Complete Guide to Nostr