Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

Nostr is going to be great for bitcoin privacy. Here's something small I hacked together in an hour that lets you use nostr as an alternate bitcoin transaction broadcast mechanism!

GitHub

NIP-89 Ephemeral Bitcoin Transaction Package Relay by benthecarman · Pull Request #476 · nostr-protocol/nips

Hacked together the transaction broadcaster real quick: https://github.com/benthecarman/nostr-tx-broadcast

Replies (5)

steepdawn974 2 years ago

What exactly would it be "good for privacy" if I publish my bitcoin tx on Nostr - and tie it to my Nostr identity(!) - only so that someone else I can publish it to the mempool.space API?? I can do the same thing with `curl`, without posting my tx publicly on Nostr.

ShiShi21m 🛡️ 2 years ago

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Nice and Kind Vic 🛡️ 2 years ago

Why not just use Tor to connect to a site that allows broadcast tx and send that way?

yutaro 🛡️ 2 years ago

💪💜⚡️

El_monty 2 years ago

Did a python implementation of this at

GitHub

GitHub - monty888/txbroadcastr: bitcoin tx broadcaster in python based on benthecarman / nostr-tx-broadcast

bitcoin tx broadcaster in python based on benthecarman / nostr-tx-broadcast - monty888/txbroadcastr

. Thinking about how events could be wrapped, decrypted and relayed so even without TOR it wouldn't be easy to know who posted the original event. Also thinking about adding some steganography to the mix... And if nothing else it finally force me to write some code to monitor a directory and post any TX to the bitcoin network so I don't have to mess around manually opening a wallet to post signed txs from offline signer.