Tim Bouma on Nostr: Thanks. I am pretty familiar with OAuth2 and have been rereading the spec as I am ...
Thanks. I am pretty familiar with OAuth2 and have been rereading the spec as I am building stuff on #nostr . I realized that you get a lot of security stuff for free with nostr and relays that does not exist with https at REST that OAuth2 is built on.
With that lens, I am looking at the old specs and saying to myself - ‘With nostr, I don’t need that, I don’t need that,…’
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