nostr-irc

Acts as an IRC server and a nostr client. Connect with your IRC client using your nostr private key as the password.

Experimental code, use with caution.

Running

• Build and run main, it will listen to 127.0.0.1:6667
• It will send metadata to change your name to the chosen IRC nick when you connect, so use a throwaway private key for now or else metadata may be overwritten because reasons
• Connect with your regular IRC client, use a nostr private key as the password
• Join a channel with /join #channelkey
• Chat away
• Theoretically possible to handle several IRC connections at the same time

IRC -> nostr feature mapping

nostr -> IRC feature mapping

Features/TODO

✅ Support multiple relays, hard-coded list for now, deduplicates messages and gives a merged stream, writes are sent to all

❌ Support NIP-19 with embedded relay recommendations as #channelkey, and add recommended relays

❌ Publish

❌ Make relay list configurable

❌ Dockerize