Ok hodlbod has been COOKING on his frost signer thing with email login. I just got a demo from him and it has me more excited about Nostr than I have been in a long time.
- users can sign into Nostr apps via email (or someday any other identity system they like. Phone? Facebook? snail mail? Āhau?) but behind the scenes they still have a private key
- no server or company ever needs a full copy of their private key
- at any point they can extract their Nostr key from the system to use another one (like a bunker, hardware signer, or just a different group of signing servers, etc.)
The big problem with Nostr onboarding is that people need to put in a significant amount of work to understand and manage keys before they even get a chance to get any value out of the software. But pomade enables someone to join without thinking about keys, *and later* start caring and still be able to take full custody of their key. It is the second part that nobody has really done before, on Nostr or anywhere else that I know of. It's not bulletproof, but it combines all the best tech we have to balance ease-of-use, security, and user control.
mplorentz / Matt Lorentz
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