Oddbean new post about login | logout nostr needs hw wallets if it's going to be used for anything important, so I'm designing a cheap Nostr hardware signer for normies. here are my thoughts so far: >cheap ~$3 pcb with LED and Bluetooth https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33048962331.html >sends/receives data over Bluetooth >'ID in a box' with webapp to streamline user onboarding >easy-to-use n of m pk social recovery (like gnosis safe) >pre-signed data is hashed as a human-readable image to verify the device's signed data is accurately represented. https://github.com/3obby/humanHash https://m.primal.net/KLhQ.png
Why would you trust a mechanical device that can fail at anytime with your money ?
that's true of any device- I'm suggesting that a nostr private key may become much more valuable over time, and exposing it to non-airgapped systems is an unnecessary risk
Nostr private keys are worthless. Spammers generate new ones every second
I see... so you think nostr's current architecture is hopeless as freedom tech because there's no way to distinguish real actors from bots. makes sense. no cost of entry = no protective barrier I think you're right I'll start building an implementation of a freedom coordination pay-to-post app on an EVM chain instead. imagine each post costs a small fee to write on-chain. bots aren't profitable enough to spam
You don't get the user or social media People don't want to pay to use it It can't be all about the money
I wouldn't enter an important crypto private key on my phone, desktop, etc. perhaps for some uses like posting on social media it's not very important to protect your pk for a social identity that could he used for voting, attesting ID, interacting with financial sytem, etc, the pk must be damn near impossible for a counterparty to access a non-airgapped pk is an unnecessary risk
