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wen nutshell attack?

Algorithms don’t have affairs.

I’ve learned that the goal in developing something is not about understanding how it functions, but how it makes you feel. That’s why I like to do field-testing. I might know how everything functions under the hood, but it is only on the ground you understand how it feels. Today we were in a cafe in Lima, Peru ordering lunch for the road. The menu was only in Spanish, and the manager showed us a screenshot of a QR code on his phone. I scanned it and lo and behold, it was a Google Drive link to a pdf version of the menu in English. Nobody gave a f*** that it was pdf or served up from Google. Impressed with the gesture, we could then decide from the English menu and get our lunch for the road. That is a feeling I want my product to have. P.S. Peruvian avocados are to die for.

Google Docs

CARTA_LA BAGUETTE_2026_LIMA_INGLES.pdf

Our tour guide in Peru needed to see a copy of my passport. Sure, no problem. I opened Oakgate and presented it on my phone. The record was served up in real time from my tiny private server at home. Here I am on the other side of the world, using infrastructure that has a home of its own. #projectoakgate #nostr #safebox

Don't mess with the Ministry of Culture or you will end up in this building.

GM

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GM from Lima!

Field testing my own s###.. Used my own #nostr #safebox wallet to present my boarding pass for an international flight. PDF was served up via a #Blossom server on a private VPN and rendered in the wallet. #ProjectOakgate

Looks cool. Will try when I am travelling.

Nostr VPN — Open-source Tailscale alternative

Pay for VPN access as you go with Bitcoin, or connect your own devices for free.

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Morning reading companion.

json/secp256k1/schnorr/sha256 is all you need.

What side of the political spectrum is secp256k1/schnorr ?

Nostr is sovereign infrastructure. View quoted note →

The World is Flat

The World is Flat

Hierarchy has its place in the world. But flatness is what we might need.

The goal here is to make sure the user has no clue that nostr, bitcoin, cashu and blossom are doing all of the sovereign heavy-lifting underneath. It's just about sending funds and sharing records - with a cheap NFC card. #nostr #safebox #ProjectOakGate

Video shorts - OakGate

Short demonstrations of OakGate in everyday use.

I feel sorry for those who already borrowed against the promised $5K

Nostr is infrastructure.

My updated proposal to add post-quantum support to nostr signed events

GitHub

Add NIP for PQ by trbouma · Pull Request #2185 · nostr-protocol/nips

Adding a NIP for post-quantum support in nostr My repos is here: https://github.com/trbouma/nips/blob/pqc/PQ.md