Yet the people that control the nostr protocol are inserting spyware that sends ip address and browsing history to shitcoin VCs into big chunks of the nostr eco system.
Super news! IMHO, I believe that #cashu along with #nostr is the big game-changer.
Congratulations nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg and thanks to nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f for the LTS! nostr:note1jf8ckdug36wl9q7724q5f5x8cnfv2a4wzyxxr73wge4tfxc6vzmqkn80n2
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How do we counter that? IMHO, develop a protocol that is decoupled from IP/REST (though it may still use it)
Web of reputation. Need a way to mark the bad sites and actors.
Yup.
A npub on its own is just a npub. That’s why I believe NIP-05 is a good start, though not the eventual solution. Reputation is a function of context: over time, the events that a npub emits, over relationships: the ‘web’ in which the npub is judged to be a good part.
Not sure we have the solution yet, but what is encouraging is that, with #nostr, we have a different starting point than other so-called solutions that have a permissioned starting point.
You have a keyring of identities which change in time. The NIP-05 is tied to a domain. The nostr id is tied to a pubkey. The pubkey could be looked up from a number of relays which give a signed profile. But those profiles can also live on domains in .well-known locatations too, the only difference is that relays reply in realtime. You can version control the profile as it evovles stamp it in time, and also track it on a block chain.
Thanks. Let me digest this.