I want to thank you and the other user (hobofan) for pointing out the use of crypto currencies as C2s. I do bioinformatics for a living, not infosec, so that's another fun little rabbit hole for me to go on...
I found it when I realized that nano had 0 fees and I realized that by using a nano vanity address generator, I can embed data into a series of transactions and then basically embed data into the chain (for free) since there is 0 gas fees
Now I created it as a way of getting timestamps of any data onto the chain but you can embed any information and create c2c's on top of that
There is also a way that I vibe coded once to embed data directly into the vanity address and so you can lose 10^-32 nano or basically negligble which is more efficient as well
If you have any questions, I'd love to answer (also even if I like the tech, I think that crypto's fundamentally really really volatile and I prefer things like index funds being honest)
Is this you? https://github.com/Koeng101/nanotimestamps
> also even if I like the tech, I think that crypto's fundamentally really really volatile and I prefer things like index funds being honest
At the risk of derailing the thread, I agree. However, I think "tokenization" is probably crypto's killer app if the messy problem of legal finality rectifying assets on the blockchain with their real-world counterparts can be solved. I touched upon this in a separate post on my blog.
You really don't need to spend any money at all and that's actually how I built it. I recommend you to contact me if you wish to run it locally for experiments purposes as it requires bao and nano-vanity-generator, you can take the look at the code
Also I would like to disclose that the code is AI generated. I have no expertise in this field but I found this idea fascinating and saw nobody doing it so did it. But still, I am just proud of my idea and I get good reception whenever I mention this idea (which is quite a lot, tbh I am proud of it a little) so yeah, I love talking about this project's idea fascinating as well and I have expanded upon this work privately to even build ways of creating ones own tokens on top of nano etc. but creating wallet etc. and more abstractions felt wrong and I just wanted to prove it was possible
To be honest, you creating a c2 server on hinge was similar to this feeling of "proving" as well.
To me, its just that if I can prove something, then I can figure out the practical uses of it later (like discussing it right now) etc.
I guess we both are similar in the "proving" way reading your article which is nice to hear, Let me know if you have any questions as I would love to answer!
No its not, I have the domain nanotimestamps.org but its not really doing much (its called laziness from my side)
https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister/nanotimestamp/blob/main...
Here you go! (the video starts as a gif but there is also a .mp4)
Ended up finding that the best way to upload videos is probably github wiki pages
https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister/nanotimestamp/wiki
So let me know how you like this project, Y'know making this project had to make me build some abstractions which you might be interested to look at as well and could be used for multiple purposes.
Create an issue in my github repo if you want to talk to me if you have any questions as well and I would love to answer there and here as well if you wish! Glad my project could be of interest to ya! If you have any use cases for my project, then let me know as well
have a nice day! Looking forward to talk to ya
If you are interested in L2's, polygon's cheap as well fwiw