Why does Session messenger have the strongest censorship resistance known to man?

Explain it to me like I’m 11,

1) Encryption has a public key and a private key.

2) Nostr, Tor Onions, and Session all use encryption as identity, with the public key as your username, and the private key as your password

3) If the government obtains your private key for Nostr or Tor Onion, it’s game over. You lost.

4) But if the government gets your Session private key, you then re-assign your username on the blockchain to another account with a 2nd key. So your speech and delivery to your followers is not realistic to stop.

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Explain it to me like I’m a tech-savvy crypto journalist:

1) Session has unique DNS based on the blockchain.

2) Session is like Nostr, with a public/private keypair for identity, where decentralized permissionless relays host content

3) UNLIKE Nostr, where it goes to the POSTER’s chosen relay out in the open. Session’s relays put 1-on-1 messages on the RECIEVER’S assigned relays using a distributed hash type system on a darkweb. This presents extreme challenges for both censorship and surveillance since the delivery is both hidden and distributed.

3) Unlike Nostr which is on the clearweb, Session routes the messages through an onion mixnet like Tor. So we can think of Session with the analogy of a combination of Nostr, Telegram, and Tor.

4) Unlike Tor Onions, where the encryption key for identity is in the server’s memory and therefore the location is critical to hide. Instead, Session has 2 sets of keys, 1 for the actual messages, and a 2nd keypair for a cold storage crypto wallet that owns the username, and can then re-assign it on the blockchain to another public key.

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Explain it to me like I’m a crypto anarchist:

1) These government thugs want to censor speech. They can’t ban Monero or “No KYC” Bitcoin if we can transact freely. We can transact freely if we can speak freely.

2) Tor onions are vulnerable to be seized because the Onion’s private key is at the physical location of the content delivery. If these violent .gov thugs seize the Tor server, it’s game over.

3) Instead, Session divorces physical locations from your push notification speech, by both delivering content through distributed decentralized nodes, and allowing you a 2nd cold storage wallet key to re-assign the username to another public key if discovered. By completely separating physical locations from identity, we deprive corrupt tyranny from the ability to use violence which is their only power.

4) Nostr is on the clearweb, meaning we can see who hosts the content. Cloudflare and Hetzner host more than half of the relays and can like take content down on government requests to just 2 entities.

5) Instead Session not only protects the sender and relays, but also the receiver. This protects your audience which is critical.

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Explain it to me like I’m a business entrepreneur:

1) Uncensored free speech has more value in a corrupt society

2) We are moving towards totalitarianism

3) Session allows self-custody of your audience in the same way that Bitcoin or Monero allow self-custody of your funds.

4) Domain names from the government have limited value to conservatives, libertarians, crypto companies, CBC cannabis, gambling, and whatever else is controversial if you can’t say anything on them

5) Session usernames have more value to the relevant stakeholder and when they are easy to spell

6) You can speculate on Session usernames for huge relevant stakeholders now for pennies, and sell them later for a huge profit if humanity realizes the true potential for self-custody of social media identity

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Explain it to me like I’m a Bitcoin Maxi:

1) Session has it’s own token in order to function. The system can’t function without the darkweb relays being paid.

2) These “tokens” should not be thought of as money but coupons or shares in a corporation. Because they are only used to buy one product (names on a blockchain) and are not used for anything else.

3) Rather than view this as a competing crypto or challenger to Bitcoin, it should be viewed as a way of bypassing the stock market for a controversial company that’s defying the government.

4) The primary purpose of Bitcoin is to separate money and the state. This should expect a violent response from the state. Other tools are needed beyond the money itself for a marketplace under these totalitarian conditions.

5) Therefore because Session’s crypto is not competing with Bitcoin, and in fact adds to Bitcoin’s value proposition, by allowing for the organization and speech of no KYC transactions to occur.

6) If I were a government thug, I would try to smear Session’s adoption by playing Nostr Bitcoin maxis against Session. This is an age-old tactic of divide and conquering slaves. It’s been used in the Middle East with arming both Sunnis and Shiites. It’s been used in Africa with the Tutsi and Hutus of the Rwandan genocide. And I beg you to realize my brother, it’s being used on you now.

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And what prevents darkweb relays to be paid in bitcoin rather than a custom token? Lack of programmability?

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Discussion

The issue with Bitcoin or anything else being used, is then it is not trustless. If I pay you first, how do I know you’ll deliver? If you do service first, how do you know I’ll pay? Because it’s anonymous service where you don’t even know what relays are onion routing serving you, the whole concept of vendor trust and they want to service me because of my reputation breaks down. There’s other logistical issues as well.

But we will be running premium options for people to voice their content as well as subscribe to content, and those will have BTC lightning options

Well it does sound like a lack of programmability expressiveness...

When I make a payment on lightning, I pay a fee, including to relays that don't know the full route or who I am, but they can't claim that fee without fulfilling the service they've been asked for. The HTLCs make the service atomic.

Bitcoin is expressive enough for that contract, but I'm aware it might not be for more complex use cases.

I'm assuming that in order to receive their OXEN, relays have to prove they are providing the service they've been asked - either to the user, or to the network at large. If the verification of that proof could be run on a bitcoin smart contract (which, granted, might not be possible with the current expressiveness of bitcoin scripts) then their is no need for that custom token, the smart contract is the trustless arbitrator of the network.

I think this framing is worth mentioning to bitcoin maxis. Tokens do become useless with enough expressiveness, but we're not there yet.