easyDNS is now accepting Solana (SOL) payments for all services, following on a theme of firsts: First ICANN accredited registrar to accept Bitcoin payments (back in 2013) We had Bitcoin treasury strategy long before anybody had ever heard of Microstrategy. First to accept ETH for payments and provide ENS linking to legacy domains, […]
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Announcing easyNostr-NIP05 for WordPress
We’re big fans of decentralized social media platforms (we’ve been operating a public Mastodon instance for years), so when Nostr came along (Notes And Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) it we immediately saw the potential and started getting involved. We wrote an introduction to Nostr here, and stood up a public Nostr relay at wss://nostr.easydns.ca […]
easyNostr: Setup your NIP-05 ID under your own domain (or use one of ours)
Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) continues to gain traction and spread like wildfire. For those hearing about it for the first time, Nostr is a fully decentralized microblogging protocol (and not a platform, the way Mastodon is). It divides right down to the user account level, governed by an asymmetric key pair, which makes it even client agnostic […]
Move over Mastodon, here comes Nostr
The latest Twitter challenger takes decentralization a step further Notes and Other Stuff, a.k.a Nostr is the latest decentralized microblogging protocol to take aim at centralized social media platforms. It’s like a decentralized Twitter. Contrast with Mastodon, where the decentralization is achieved via a federation of nodes (but each node is effectively centrally controlled), Nostr […]
