https://youtu.be/LJKDF0BwepI

What are some good inbox DM relays? I think mine are borked.

Do you have any favorite stories/videos/articles of Bitcoin serving progressive ends?

Just dropped Horcrux 1.0.1 with fixes for a few bugs I found in my final testing before 1.0. Still collecting questions for the FAQ - if you have any ask away. https://horcruxbackup.com

Run `pnpm install`. Some weird error about versions. Run `pnpm install` again. Different error. Run `pnpm install` a third time. Magically succeeds. I hate javascript.

Today marks the 1.0 release of my app Horcrux 🥳 Horcrux is an app for backing up data like digital wills, passwords, and cryptographic keys. The cool part is that it backs them up to the devices of your friends and family and recovering the data requires their consent. So nobody has the whole secret and even if one or two people lose their piece recovery is still possible. This adds a social layer to your security stack that is highly secure but also highly resilient. You can read more about it at https://horcruxbackup.com. Of course it's free, open-source, and built on top of Nostr. I'm putting together a FAQ page for the website now, so post your questions in the thread below. I'd love any feedback you have to give, here or through the contact form on the website. And I'm trying something a bit different. If you are trying to figure out if this tool is right for you and would like to just chat about it you can book a call with me here: https://cal.com/matt-lorentz/horcrux-onboarding

I burned several days over the last few months jumping through Apple and Google's App store hoops - DUNS numbers, identity verification, encryption documentation, half a dozen wizards about content in the app, privacy, and of course then the days long review process itself. I've never published anything to https://zapstore.dev before and I just did it in 20 minutes. That includes me reading through the documentation and futzing with my Android keystore for several minutes which I had previously misconfigured. Absolutely delightful experience. I'm hopeful that Google's blocking of third party apps and app stores is going to cause a flourishing of third party stores like Zapstore (and de-googled Android). The old systems are broken. I have to assume the deluge of vibe-coded apps is why my Apple review took 18 days. I want an app store where I pay security auditors to compile the apps themselves and go over the code with a fine-toothed comb. F-droid already has some custom repositories that more or less work this way. Zapstore has better infrastructure for this with the Vertex web-of-trust and app catalogs.

I submitted the release build of Horcrux to Apple for review on July 31st. Today, 18 days later, I got my first review. But they approved it! So I guess that makes tomorrow launch day 🍾

nak is such a good command line tool it makes me question whether it exists to support the Nostr protocol or if the Nostr protocol is just an excuse to ship nak.

Hah. I don't understand. Are you suggesting I just like give people a file and tell them to email it to their stewards? How would the encryption work? I think a big part of making social backup usable is creating assurances that your stewards do in fact still have the data and can access it when needed. You need some reliable machine to machine communication for that. It doesn't have to be Nostr (in fact I am thinking about adding iroh as an alternative transport), but Nostr has the pieces I need and is also built from simple building blocks that will likely still be understandable in 50 years.

Now it works (without --fpa) thanks!

CC auth.nostr1.com seems to only give me events since July, is that the expected behavior?

CC I think nos.lol is having some auth bug? In any case I can't fetch 1059s with nak like: `nak req --prompt-sec -fpa --auth -k 1059 -p nos.lol` I tried with and without --fpa and --auth.

I can't imagine what that must feel like. Praying for you and your family to get home safe.