`He's right. Bitcoin already works. We didn't need an industry of "solutions" on top of it. Most 2nd layers and federations just put a middleman back in, take fees, raise VC money, and answer to nobody. New banks with orange logos. For normal people it's simple: on-chain, self-custody, your own keys. Everything else is someone else's business model. 🔑` View quoted note →

Good Morning, my few Nostr friends! I want this place to be so good that we never need X again

I just paid 88.888 sats for wss://nostr.wine my first paid relay 😏

Nostrich feels faster than Primal. I looked up why. Primal does not read the relays when you open the feed. The app talks to Primal's own cache server, cache2.primal.net. That server sits on the relays all day, stores a copy, and answers the client from that copy. The notes still live on relays. The view you scroll is theirs. From Europe that extra hop is the lag. A round trip to a US cache is often about 120-180 ms before the first byte. A direct socket to a European relay is often about 20-40 ms. For a following feed, a few narrow queries in parallel beat one fat reply from America. The cache still wins on search, threads, and an unknown profile. On the feed I actually open, the direct client like @Nostrich is the faster one.

I was signed into @Nostrich with Clave. Likes and posts kept sticking. Post sending. Waiting for signer. A second tap did not fix it. It queued another request behind the first. Clave is a remote signer. Nostrich does not sign the event. It waits for Clave to send the signature back. Background the app, or hit a slow bunker relay, and it sits there. So I am putting the nsec in. The signature happens on the device. No waiting for signer. Post sending can still flash while the relays take the event. It should not stick. The key now sits in the client, not in Clave. The offline backup stays offline. These issues, and the speed with signers, need to improve.

What is the point of being on Nostr specifically, and only posting gm etc, and never talking to anyone? What are you trying to gain? I have found a lot of people doing this