Fast and Simple Nostr Setup
This is one of probably a gabillion ways to get started with NOSTR. It’s not the best way. It’s a fast guide for friends and family. If you don’t like it, go back to bed.
Nostr is like a decentralized twitter
it uses a private key starting with nsec.. and public key starting with npub..
First you'll need a private key. We’ll use a the Alby Bitcoin Lightning App to generate and store the private key
Install Alby for your browser and go through the Alby sign up
Don’t forget to go to settings > Theme and change to dark mode. Don’t be a barbarian.
In Settings, go to Nostr under the Alby Lab section and generate a private key
you’ll get a private key
I know what I said about the key format. This format is in hex.
obviously i didn’t show the whole key - and it’s a throw away account anyway.
that key is now stored in the Alby node you Alby app connects to.
now head over to the Nostr client Astral.Ninja we’ll use to post and read on Nostr. A welcome window will pop up. Use Public Key From Extension
connect Alby
and confirm to allow astral to read the public key
You’ll see a enter your key section, and a green proceed button. Just click proceed
You’ll notice a popup saying your private isn’t here. Don’t worry, you don’t need to enter it, we chose to keep the private key in Alby instead of having Astral generate it. Ignore this.
now go fill out your profile, and when you save, Alby will be prompted to sign to sign confirm the change. If you want to include a profile picture, you can upload an image to the Nostr image uploader and use the URL in your Nostr profile.
When you post, you’ll be asked to sign with the private key:
Did I make a boo boo error? Let me know in the comments.
Now go verify your Nostr public key on Twitter and Nostr. Not required but it proves your Nostr is associated with your twitter account and vice versa.
Don’t forget to actually paste your public key in place of the quotes when you tweet and you’ll need your twitter handle for the Nostr post
you can just copy the text and paste it into your Nostr client directly if Alby isn’t playing nice with Nostr.directory
now post an invoice for 100 sats! You can use Alby to create an invoice and paste it, the Nostr client will format it into a nice looking invoice for you.
That’s it, you’re done!
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