“You’ll get all that for free if you build it right”
In this dialogue:
- 01: Start Ugly
- 02: There is No Global
- Concept of ownership & “Read, Write, Own”
- Shamir Secret Sharing and Timelocks
- “No amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.”
- You can’t prove deletion of a key (or anything, really); best you can do is “burn” bitcoin
- Data is information, which behaves like an idea (not like an apple)
- “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – https://dergigi.com/threads/memes-vs-the-world
- Why the Pubky architecture isn’t great
- Cashu
- Nutzaps: NIP-60 / NIP-61
- How nutzaps fix fake zaps on zaplife.lol
- “Ecash fixes HTTP 402”
- “[Bitcoin [and nostr]] take advantage of the nature of information being easy to spread but hard to stifle.” –Satoshi Nakamoto
- Discovery with NIP-89
- #RunDVM with NIP-90
- Why micropayments can’t work on credit rails, and how bitcoin is the rediscovery of money.
- Putting payments into blossom
- “Money is essentially a tool to keep track of who owes what to whom. Broadly speaking, everything we have used as money up to now falls into two categories: physical artifacts and informational lists. Or, to use more common parlance: tokens and ledgers.”
- “maximum utility in the world of Bitcoin entails the adoption of maximum responsibility.”
- Complexity of Lightning vs the simplicity of eCash
- Amber and Citrine
- How Pablo became the BIS
- 12 words in your head can literally save your life
- The in-between of custodial and non-custodial in a multi-mint world
- Nutzaps integrated in chachi.chat
- The intermediacy of nostr is magic
- In nostr you’ll get a lot for free IF YOU BUILD IT RIGHT
- “Free Speech platforms cannot exist; if there is a ‘deplatform’ button, the button will be pressed.”
- “Neither nostalgia nor utopia.”
- Solutions that make stuff worse over time vs solutions that make stuff better over time.
- #asknostr on passkeys, and why we think they’ll make things worse over time.
- Authentication vs identity: “identification asks, authentication proves”
- You are not your name and photo; identity is prismatic
- (m00t’s talk on it at web summit 2011)
- Starbug from CCC pwning TouchID biometrics from a high-res photo (article)
- Key rotation and (American) HODL
- Social recovery
- Multi-sig for nostr with FROSTR
Links & References
- Nostr Protocol Repository: https://github.com/nostr-protocol
- Cashu (e-cash): https://github.com/cashubtc
- NIP-60 (Nutzaps): https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/60.md
- NIP-89 (Service Discovery) & NIP-90 (DVMs) – upcoming proposals: https://nips.nostr.com/89 & https://nips.nostr.com/90
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