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Yes, they are trying to use DIDs, sidetrees, and the w3c stack. Jack is behind it so might not compete too much, but will have good funding. They have a very complex spec with a few mistakes. But most of it is OK, and boils down to typed JSON.

It offers key rotation, which nostr doesnt have. And personal storage which nostr doesnt have either.

Personal storage will be better then keeping stuff on relays, because relays dont have any guarantee to store things.
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Tim Bouma 1y ago

I think key rotation (recovery, history) is a higher level service that requires a social component, not just cryptography. My current thinking is baking key rotation into the did:method is a mistake. I think it can be addressed with a trusted nip05 service.

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Melvin Carvalho 1y ago

did:method definitely a mistake

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Tim Bouma 1y ago

All the stuff I’ve seen on key rotation using cryptography means protecting even harder the root key. If that key gets leaked, you’re really screwed over.

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Melvin Carvalho 1y ago

Very good point. But there must be a better way. I dont think we'll find it until we try things, though. Like an evolution rather than a one shot answer.