Nostr does not rely on ICANN for my public key, nor does it rely on ICANN for nostr:npub1hyxredcavc6ruqgsf4wf4hmakpwnvefmzaspl7dja6a2sxlx0q3sxwtqnx my handle, or my description, or my web of trust, on and on. That all taken together is enough to represent me on Nostr.

Nostr of course does rely on ICANN for my NIP05, but that's pretty useless to me, so I made it a joke NIP05. (If Primal takes it away tomorrow I could care less.) Nostr also relies on ICANN for relays, which are things and not people. If SpacesProtocol could resolve relay IPs that'd be welcome, but to do so would require communicating with a trusted node, TLS fingerprints, and all sorts of other things SpacesProtocol doesn't do.

>Humans value naming, we’ve built systems to enforce uniqueness (first, last names, SSN’s, drivers licenses, passports, etc.).

First and last name combos are not unique.

SSNs are not human-readable.

You only get both if you have an enforcer.

>You yourself have a name, a picture, and a centralized zap address. Why aren’t you using your npub? Spaces Protocol mirrors this reality as a tiny permissionless layer on bitcoin.

The only reason I have a zap address showing on my profile is because I can't hide it. I don't need it shown at all. People can zap my posts and I'll get the sats no problem. Whether my zap address shows in my profile or not is irrelevant to zapping. People can also zap my profile without caring about my zap address. If my zap address were a long string of numbers it'd all still work fine.

>Spaces Protocol isn’t about control, it’s about providing the coherence users desire without central authorities. Protocols scale in layers, Bitcoin will scale in layers, Spaces Protocol is the Bitcoin identity layer.

It is about establishing a court of law. Let's say I go and inscribe curious@bitcoin on a Satoshi (very easy, I could do it today). Now curious@bitcoin exists on the bitcoin chain, forever, in two places. You'll tell me your curious@bitcoin is the "right one". But you can't argue it's the "right one" because it's "on bitcoin". My curious@bitcoin is on bitcoin too. Mine is also newer. All you can do is point people to the judge, in this case SpacesProtocol, and ask the judge to affirm your case and dismiss mine.