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Big news Nostr fam: the Primal Remote Signer is here! 🫡 We just released Primal 2.6, which includes a NIP-46 remote signer built into our iOS and Android apps. Now you can use your Primal mobile app to login to any Nostr app that supports the remote login (a.k.a. nsec bunker) standard. IMHO this is the easiest and most secure way to login to Nostr web apps. Check out Paul’s overview video below. We had to do some crazy stuff to make this work on iOS. Overall this was way harder to build than we anticipated. Try it and let us now how it hits!

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Satoshi Nakamoto71d ago

Okay, this is dope as fuck. No more extensions.

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miljan71d ago

We got some crash reports from another user too, but we can’t seem to reproduce the issue yet. Someone will reach out to get more info.

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Marko71d ago

Hey @Bitcoin Awareness did you download your Android app using zapstore?

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Bitcoin Awareness71d ago

No. And after the update feeds are hardly loading.

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Marko71d ago

Hey @Garth is there any specific actions that are making the app crash? Or does it happen randomly?

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Garth71d ago

Seems to be random, has happened scrolling feed, watching video, trying to reply to Miljan etc

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Garth71d ago

And strangely now I’m trying my best it’s not crashing 🤷 wouldn’t last more than 15 seconds previously

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ChadF and 33 others71d ago

Does my app need to use the primal relay to use this? Working on adding support and just curious.

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miljan71d ago

You can use any relay. Simply implement NIP-46 to login into your app.

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hodlbod70d ago

Incredible work, very smooth experience. I think it'll still be hard to recommend that people download an unrelated social media app in order to sign in to the one they actually want to use, but for people who already use primal this is great.

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Terry Yiu70d ago

I have a not well thought out idea that there needs to be a Zapstore-like mobile app where it’s your one-stop shop for onboarding to Nostr, secure key storage and profile management, signer, and Nostr App Store. It would be an entry point to all things Nostr but you would need to download micro apps through the app store to access specific functionality.

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Joe Martin70d ago

this is awesome! For some reason though, I have trouble with the wallet in Primal when trying to onboard new people. Anyone else experience this?

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paul keating70d ago

Email not going through?

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Joe Martin70d ago

this is awesome! For some reason though, I have trouble with the wallet in Primal when trying to onboard new people. Anyone else experience this?

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paul keating70d ago

Email not going through?

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OOliver69d ago

got a glimpse of it when @paul keating showed it to me when in @aa55a479…f7598935. just used it to login to the web app. still don't get it technically why it needs to play a sound while using it. any idea? #asknostr

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paul keating69d ago

Apple overlords

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Jake Woodhouse66d ago

Really helpful. I am so dubious of signing into random, but interesting, new Nostr tools Great work guys Exactly what I would want from a top client Comp for @4657dfe8…47934b3e which is always healthy

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Jimble's Jumble53d ago

I installed Primal via zapstore, zap store says I have version 2.6 but when I load the app in settings it says 2.5. since zapstore thinks I'm up to date how do I get the new version with signer?

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Marko53d ago

@726a1e26…861a1c11 maybe something to look into?

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Garth61d ago

It’s happening again, loads up and I can use it for about 10 seconds and then it crashes. Doesn’t seem to matter what I do, same result. I’m on iOS 26.3, could that be part of it?

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Garth61d ago

Also while I’m at it @6538925e…571e55c3 is crashing every time I try load it @Oscar Merry

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hodlbod70d ago

I have that exact same not well thought out idea

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verbiricha70d ago

love it. make it happen.

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bitcoinranger70d ago

That’s what will keep away the majority of people not to use nostr because it’s “overcomplicated” and you have to have tons of apps on your phone

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brito70d ago

To be fair: a signer app isn't mandatory for new users nor for people just trying out different apps around NOSTR. People use it when they have different tools that they enjoy and want to reuse their account on it. In fact would argue that NOSTR apps tend to be easiest ones to start using. Identifies are generated immediately and starts using the app right away.

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Joe Martin70d ago

I don't think so, it's just when I try and pay it says 'can't pay non zero invoice'. I will try again with someone else and see if it does it again

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paul keating70d ago

See if you can get a screenshot or screen recoding . Thanks for the feedback!

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Joe Martin70d ago

Will do!

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Joe Martin70d ago

I don't think so, it's just when I try and pay it says 'can't pay non zero invoice'. I will try again with someone else and see if it does it again

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paul keating70d ago

See if you can get a screenshot or screen recoding . Thanks for the feedback!

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Joe Martin70d ago

Will do!

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Marko53d ago

@Jimble's Jumble you can download Primal directly from Google Playstore or get our apk builds from our GitHub : PrimalHQ

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miljan61d ago

Thanks for reporting. This is very much on our radar. Next iOS build will include some fixes that should address the issue. Btw no, we don't think this is related to your iOS version. Thank you for your patience sir; we are aiming to ship the new build by mid next week.

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miljan58d ago

We just shipped an iOS update (build 2.6.42) which should be more solid all around and address these intermittent crashes that were affecting some of our users. Please upgrade and let us know if you run into any further issues.

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nik ⚡️🟠🟣58d ago

please implement the feature that Nostur has: the feed remembers where you where last time you used the app so you can scroll up to the new posts chronologically starting from where you left instead of being presented with the last post and going down from newer to older… it should not be very difficult…

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Garth57d ago

So far so good 🙏

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