Through hours of browsing and having discussions about Nostr on the web these last couple days, these are my favourite services so far:
https://coinos.io/ -- I love the simplicity of this wallet. It doesn't ask for anything upon sign-up, an it works very well.
Nosta
Nostr profiles. Nice and easy.
-- It's like a "Beacons" Web App which gives you all the necessary information about your resources in front of you. Nosta has been extremely helpful for me. I would use a service to try to configure the things I configure on Nosta, and they would mainly give me hell by not changing, or not staying enabled. Nosta is so much better than those "Beacons" apps.
https://habla.news/ -- A longform blog-centric use case. I like the feeling of it because unlike Medium, it doesn't ask for Stripe, and with that, the underlayment is totally different because it doesn't want you to be a "commercial" entity if you want to receive any sort of profit(lightning). Fuck all that.
Jumble
A user-friendly Nostr client for exploring relay feeds
-- A great micro-blogging, #shortform platform. It reminds me of older iterations of similar things. Not the Blue Bird, and definitely not the whale or the butterfly! We got the #nostrich, baby.
Nos2x --
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nos2x/kpgefcfmnafjgpblomihpgmejjdanjjp -- A no frills signer that works very well. The original. At first I used Flamingo in #UnGoogledChromium but learned that it was deprecated. I wanted to see what its successor was. I am still pondering, but nos2x is very smooth for what it does.
-- It is Internet Relay Chat on a Nostr instance. You are verified by your key, and has been a smooth ride so far. Join #introductions on #Nostirc. It will work with your favourite IRC Client as well. The people are rad.
https://stacker.news/ -- Pretty new to this platform, but it is like #reddit but totally different. It looks be be heavily lightning-centric. I can't wait to dive in more.
https://nostr-pins.shakespeare.wtf/ -- #Pinterest-inspired platform that allows you to post and aggregate and pin pictures from around the web.
Awesome Nostr Resources
A comprehensive collection of Nostr resources, tools, clients, and protocols for developers and users.
-- An amazing web store for #Nostr that I'm sure most of you know about. I think it was one of the first things I went to when I joined Nostr.
If you know of any more cool services, please let me know with a reply! Some #lightning would be rad as well!
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How are Canadians Transitioning to LN?
I've been stuck on trying to figure out the best way to convert CAD to LN to get my Sats in.
From a locale perspective, for the first time looking into trading fiat currency to LN, it's been a difficult adventure.
I spent all night looking into a few different exchanges. Like Kraken, for example: Monero can't be bought with my tender in my locale. But I am able to buy BTC and trade to XMR on ORANGE FREN.
Do I convert from my Fiat currency to BTC on one exchange, then use another to convert BTC to XMR, then from XMR to LN?
Or should I look into a Canadian broker? Right now, I'm not really dealing with a large amount of currency for exchange. I just want some LN the safest way possible. Or hell, even the easiest way possible.
I looked into Kraken, Orang Fren, and Eigen.
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I think once I get more used to this, I may as well just get my own relay working.
