I'm not here on Nostr because I run away from Twitter. I'm here because I'm in search for an internet as it once used to be.
I'm a hacker who fucking hates that social media is in the hands of private companies. I remember using IRC and meeting likeminded anons online. I remember what the internet utopia felt like. People who didn't care what your name or status is, people who aren't interested in sharing their boring holiday pics with random strangers online. I'm not interested in what politicians and influencers have to say. I don't care about the latest mainstream trend that's going viral.
I want random weird interesting smart people around me who share their ideas in a free and open space that isn't controlled by anyone.
That's all I'm looking for. There aren't many such spaces on the internet.
✨ Merged: NUT-14: Hashed Timelock Contracts (HTLCs)
HTLCs allow you to attack spending conditions to Cashu Ecash the similar to how it works with Lightning. There are two ways to spend the ecash: either you know the preimage to a hash, or you wait until the timelock expires. Both conditions can be combined with an additional public key that needs to sign the token for spending it (same as with P2PK tokens).
This allows us to build awesome things like:
- Atomic swaps between ecash (of different mints for example)
- Combine it with Lightning HTLCs to extend payment routes over an Ecash mint
- Build trustless Lightning gateways that can serve as Lightning payment providers for users of a mint
- Probably more cool stuff that I can't think of
Chaumian Ecash isn't shadowy tech. It's as mainstream as it gets. Arguably even more mainstream than blockchains.
If you want proof, check out the Ecash systems the European Central Bank and the Bank of International Settlements are building.
A Cashu wallet is a custodial wallet that speaks the Cashu protocol. The Cashu protocol is an open protocol for developing Chaumian Ecash solutions for Bitcoin.