Nostr
About Nostr
Nostr is a simple, open protocol that enables global, decentralized, and censorship-resistant social media.
Nostr News
Technology
Nostr domain on sale for $5 million, may host Lightning wallet services if unsold
Ben Arc pledged to give 10% of the proceeds to the other cofounder of Nostr.
- CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily: AllianceBlock hacked for $12M; Nostr launches Damus app
AllianceBlock suffered a $12 million exploit against user Troves on Bonq. Elsewhere, Nostr launched a new decentralized social media app for mobile devices.
- Decentralized social network Nostr launches mobile app ‘Damus’
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey said Damus' launch is a "milestone for open protocols."
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Nostr Features & Specs
Simple
The protocol is based on very simple & flexible event objects (which are passed around as plain JSON) and uses standard elliptic-curve cryptography for keys and signing. The only supported transport is websockets connections from clients to relays. This makes it easy to write clients and relays and promotes software diversity.
Resilient
Because Nostr doesn’t rely on a small number of trusted servers for moving or storing data, it’s very resilient. The protocol assumes that relays will disappear and allows users to connect and publish to an arbitrary number of relays that they can change over time.
Verifiable
Because Nostr accounts are based on public-key cryptography it’s easy to verify messages were really sent by the user in question.
Like HTTP or TCP-IP, Nostr is a protocol; an open standard upon which anyone can build. Nostr is not an app or service that you sign up for.
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