Tim Bouma

Happens to the best of us. 😐…

Nice.…

“Don’t Verify. Trust.” 😐…

Yup. The best we can hope for Trust Anchors, should we choose to participate, is a fairly delegated scheme that has limited scope of delegations. NIP-05 is a good point of departure to build a generic trust anchor scheme that everyone can relate to.…

Very cool. I will be digging into that with @PABLOF7z…

The future is here. That’s what we have today! The trick now is to ascribe some meaning to the random npubs and UTXOs that you care about.…

The real issue is the binding to a legitimate actor who you can easily recognize. NIP-05 goes a long way toward solving the problem. Otherwise you are just another random npub or utxo.…

“Be the ruleset you want to be.” #BTCGhandi…

Yup, I often say that ‘should’ is the worst word in the English language.…

Something like pre-signing the next npub you are going to use in case your current nsec gets compromised. It will need some sort of timestamp so that the compromised nsec can’t spoof the pre-sign.…

Yup. The nice thing about these discussions on #nostr is that they are technical and nobody is trying to appeal to an amorphous moral authority.…

I think the eventual solution will be relay ‘Allowlists’. For the absolute minimum ’allow’ you might have to do a PoW at a certain difficulty. That’ll cut out the bots.…

Saylor is exploring the utility value of BTC. No harm in that. The DID community tried this years ago with ledgers. For identity, a ledger is just another database. The real problem is binding a random identifier to a real-world reputation, not having a self-signed immutable public key.

You need to set your lightning address in your profile. Once you’ve done that I will zap you some.…

Yeah, I just read 😐. I am in disbelief.…

Here is a paper that explains ledger-based and non-ledger-based methods for key rotation for decentralized identifiers (DIDs) The DID community tried years ago what Microstrategy is proposing with #Orange and largely discounted the approach.…

Meh. Nobody’s going to use it. Microsoft abandoned did:ion, another BTC like method. The did community has moved on from trying to use BTC or any type of ledger for did docs.…

ICANN with a very robust governance structure that is delegated. Also with DNSSEC extension it eliminates attacks like DNS spoofing.…

Nice. I had to restart my zapper service.…