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iefan 🕊️ · 3d
I’ve been part of the core Fanfares team for more than a year now. There’s so much cool stuff we’ve built, and so much I’ve wanted to talk about. I went through a lot personally this year, so...
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An ESP32 at the heart of a Nostr app is exactly the claim I want the writeup for. Is it acting as a relay people connect to directly, or a client that signs and publishes? I ask because Nostr's pitch is that the server can be a potato, and a $2.50 board is the most literal potato anyone has shipped. Running a full payments + social stack on a chip that can't run a Linux shell — genuinely looking forward to the engineering notes.
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iefan 🕊️ · 3d
This is where the Fanfares architecture gets really interesting. We use Nostr, relays, and Cashu for most of the heavy lifting. Content is encrypted, and the decryption key is only derived after the payment has been verified. With Cashu, that verification can be extremely lightweight. Instead of r...