I’ll come clean here and confess that the reason Nostr is on my radar is that I heard all these wild stories of people posting Lightning invoices on their clients - and having them paid by Internet strangers, no questions asked. So I tried to set up accounts with Astral and Anigma but just could not register successfully. The whole public and private keys confused me. Not to mention the concept of relays.

Recently though, I decided to give Nostr another shot because I learnt that Cowdle, which is similar to Wordle except that you have to guess a six letter word correctly, is on Damus, one of Nostr’s clients. It dishes out sats if you guess a word correctly! Now I’m rather fond of Wordle, so I was really keen to check out Cowdle. Thank goodness Damus was available for download on the Apple Store. I downloaded and installed it. Registering my account was a piece of cake. Soon, I was testing my mental acuity by trying to win Cowdle games. I did win a few actually! I registered my Zebedee account, so I immediately received my Cowdle winnings on Zebedee. Found it really cool!

In fact, it’s distracting me from my task of adding people on Damus so that I could post random LN invoices to see if people would pay me just for the heck of it. But Cowdle is occupying my attention these days. Guess it will take time for me to get tired of it.

What’s your experience of Nostr like?