With #nostr the every published event is a ‘verifiable credential’ This is the big difference between other efforts where the ‘issuer-holder-verifier’ model that is bolted on top on an otherwise insecure communications infrastructure. The fundamental problem is that no matter how much engineering, or ‘bolting on’ the issue…...

posting from primal…...

Gotta love this heist story replacing the real with a fake, then selling the real. It’s just a photograph after all, but it’s amazing what is considered valuable versus not valuable. It all boils down to provenance (events) and possession. Why is this relevant to nostr? Because the…...

The German philosopher Niklas Luhmann characterized the motivation for trust is to reduce complexity. Confidence artists quickly realized that reduced complexity could be easily replaced with hidden uncertainty with odds in their favour.…...

I find the spam versus non-spam discussion much more interesting.…...