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Remember how I was writing a book? Well, I gave up on it. But then I wrote a different one:

https://building-nostr.coracle.social/

This book is both practical and philosophical. It ellides a lot of the details you can otherwise get by reading Nostr NIPs, focusing instead on all the things I've learned over three years working on nostr.

It includes a number of contrarian opinions which may be partially or completely wrong. Feel free to disagree, or even tell me where I'm wrong. I'll be releasing updates to the book as I have time and inclination to repent of my mistakes and omissions.

The book is free, with epub and pdf versions available for your reading pleasure. If you like the book, you can send me bitcoin via nostr or at https://geyser.fund/project/buildingnostr, and if people like it enough I may publish a version that you can touch with your fingers.
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inkan · 1w
I just found this in your book: "Key rotation is something that we have to figure out if Nostr is going to succeed in the long term. There have been some proposals, but none of them have gained enough traction to be implemented. Key rotation is an inherently difficult problem, because you need to b...