Oddbean new post about login | logout The concept of keys is really weird to people. I don't think I've seen a single person who understood what is happening when they sign up.
I am a genius who immediately understood. Just kidding Don't get get nothing still But I know its free(er)
it’s the same with bitcoin keys jingle, they’re not a long string of numbers and characters
would it be so wrong to call them username / password ?
Why hasn’t anyone done a bip39 for nsecs yet? I use the term seed phrase for Bitcoin but that doesn’t really apply to Nostr.
What a very interesting idea.🙏😀😄😆
Username and password has a very specific UX for people now. I think this would confuse people because keys should not just be put into a website like basic auth creds.
yeah but how else can we make it more clear "it acts as your username" "it acts as your password" ?
I may not be the best person to ask, truly. I don't think public/private keys are all that difficult of a concept. "Here's a number that is so unimaginably large that no one could possibly ever guess it. So don't tell people the number, kay?"
It’s a public & private key pair, same as Bitcoin and PGP lol. It’s not super complex to understand how it works.
But this is what trips everyone up even with bitcoin.
Fair, I guess for some it’s not complex but for others it is. I find the easiest way to boil down the idea is explaining it by using generalized statements, like “it uses complex math to solve a puzzle that spits out a specific pattern”, or something like that when trying to explain to someone how the key pair system works.
I thought someone was working on a standard password type Nip?..