Kenji

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# Thunderproof - Proof of Trust   (Idea and concept)

**Overview**
Thunderproof aims to be a review system based on the Nostr protocol. It helps people living and purchasing products in the Bitcoin ecosystem have a reliable reference point for reviews when offered a product or service. Amidst numerous fake, unverifiable reviews and noise, Thunderproof guarantees authentic reviews.

**Mechanics**
Similar to other Web2 platforms (Trustpilot being the primary example), users can enter and search for a public key and log in with their private key to leave a review and rating. Access to the database, based on Nostr, is clearly free and available to everyone.
Thunderproof offers, for a fee, the ability to generate an iframe component to embed on websites and platforms. This comes with a customizable UI that can be tailored to the end user's implementation needs (fonts, colors, number of reviews to display, layout, etc.).

**Revenue Stream** (To Be Determined)
The database is clearly free and open source, like the entire product. Considering the economic sustainability of the product, the only paid functionality is the generation of an iframe component to embed on websites or applications. Payment is annual, in satoshi, and must be renewed each year. The link remains valid for this duration.
Included in this payment is the ability to generate a specific link to request a review. Users can also make satoshi available as rewards for those who decide to leave a comment through the personalized URL.

**User Experience**
The idea is to make the user experience as immediate and satisfying as possible for commenters. Nostr excels in this area compared to other existing services, winning both in interoperability and intrinsic economic dynamics.
In one possible user journey:
Former buyer Y receives a link from seller X, accesses with private key or NWA (Nostr Wallet Auth) to Nostr and leaves their evaluation. In some cases, they will also receive sats back for doing so.
Seller X creates an iframe component to implement on their website, customized for their needs, and embeds it on their site.
New customer Z, suspicious, finds the past customer review section and verifies authenticity by copying and pasting Y's public key on Primal (or any Nostr clients or relays), finding correspondence with the reality of the statement. Convinced, they decide to purchase the product and after a period receive a message asking them to leave an evaluation.

**Potential Developments**
In the future, beyond a rating system and comments, the idea is to generate implementable components for other systems that guarantee a certain profile value from the profile picture, for example. This could extend to different fields - quality as creator, donor, gamer, or other characteristics, simply implementable as a profile picture on a reference Nostr social platform with minimal effort required from the receiving platform. This rating system can be expanded to individual products or unique codes with potential developments.
Critical Issue Fake reviews become costly because one prerequisite to leave a review with a Nostr account is proving three outbound Lightning payments, each of at least 200 satoshi (TBD). This requirement discourages creating fake or inactive profiles solely for posting reviews. Moreover, unlike Web2 systems, anyone can copy a reviewer’s public key and verify their identity and transaction history on any Nostr client—something far more difficult and fragmented in the traditional Web2 world.

**Additional Information**
Ratings can be overwritten by newer ones in case of different experiences following the first.   Disclaimer This doesn’t want to be a system to rate humans or create discrimination.   

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# Looking for now: 

**Ideas**: please comments if you have ideas of how to improve this project at any level.  

**Co-creator dev (Co-founder)**:  I’m looking for a partner to make this project alive. I’m a designer so I can’t code it and also my techicla view of Nostr is limited. I’m not looking for someone that can just code but someone to build something together. Banal, but that’s it. We have to figure out how to fund this.Which grants or hackhatons I guess.

**Contributors-Investors:**  If you think the idea is good feel free to zap this article or you can donate at this address   : maxikenji@blink.sv

**Contact**:  Maxikenji[at]proton.me
 

Review system based on NOSTR - Thunderproof

Designer and privacy enthusiast.

Here to learn and share ideas.

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http://bitcoincalendar.net/
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