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awesome-nostr
nostr.net - awesome-nostr is a collection of projects and resources built on nostr to help developers and users find new things
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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lightning-browser-extension
The Bitcoin Lightning Browser extension that connects to different wallet interfaces and brings deep lightning integration to the web
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I see a lot of question here and will try to answer them all in one big go:
1. What is Nostr?
> Nostr is short for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". Nostr is the simplest open protocol that can create a censorship-resistant global “social” network once and for all. See also https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
2. How do I start using Nostr?
> Since it's an open protocol, everyone could (and quite a few people and teams do) build their own client for using Nostr.
> If you want to try it out on an iPhone, iPad or macOS, try Damus. It's a Twitter-style iOS client. Link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/CLwjLxWl
> Or simply log-in via one of several frontends what work in a browser, such as: https://hamstr.to/home
3. Nostr is new and small, does anybody really use it?
> From December 13th to January 10th, the number of public key identities interacting with Nostr jumped from ~700 to ~250,000 Yes, you read that right, the number of identities increased >30,000%. You can check for yourself current statistics on usage here: https://nostr.io/stats
4. How does it differ from ActivityPub?
> ActivityPub, and especially Mastodon, have been in the news a lot lately as possible replacements for, among other things, Twitter. The problem with ActivityPub is that you need to have an account on a instance that can censor contend and even block a user. When you are kicked off an ActivityPub instance, all your data is gone as well. Nostr is much simpeler: every post you make is encrypted via public key cryptography. You can either run your own relay or hook into one of several existing once. Even if a relay were to block you, it's trivially easy to switch to another one. Since you can post messages via multiple relays in one go, you might not even realise one has gone off-line or started blocking you.
For a comparison with ActivityPub, Twitter, Secure ScuttleButt, see also: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#this-is-needed-becau...
Nostr is just a protocol, and there are already many different implemented clients to interface with it. https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr#clients
How does someone use lightning on Nostr? I see a lightning link marked "Tip" on his profile page, but that seems to point to a plugin that you have to install in your browser: https://getalby.com/.
Is there some lower-level integration with lightning within Nostr, or is this it?
The Bitcoin base chain can handle about 7 transactions per second, lighting theoretical upper limit is up to 1,000,000 transactions per second. You can use lighting without managing a node yourself. There are even projects[0] in development that allows for community custody, so it stays trustless even when using a custodian.
0: https://fedimint.org/