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Microstrategy's Orange Decentralized Identity (DID:BTC) project is basically DID:ION, but it stores changes to the DID Document JSON as an OP_RETURN in the blockchain itself instead of on IPFS.

There is a coding scheme to declare changes to existing JSONs and store them as new spend transactions. The DID:BTC:

references the creation event. To reassemble the complete document, follow all spends and apply each change to the DID Document as specified.

It's cool that it is decentralized, but this is like Ordinals. The use of the chain for every change can be quite data-heavy.

The funniest thing is Microstrategy demonstrating the use of DIDs to sign regular e-mails. Once you use DIDs to sign/verify, you can use any other DID method, including DID:NOSTR or DID:MYCOMPANY. They are all equally "decentralized". :)

What Saylor clearly doesn't understand is that DIDs are already decentralized by definition. Adding a blockchain method doesn't make it more decentralized. The user's choice of method is the decentralization feature (like choosing which relays you want to use).

Derek Ross 1y ago

And once spam filters finally get fixed and the exploit patched, his DIDs die just like other Inscriptions.

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kyle 1y ago

...and maybe that's why he's against funding devs...

Derek Ross 1y ago

Possibly.

Dan 1y ago

How do the spam filters work exactly?

wolfpy 1y ago

Ok nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 as a normie this is what I am interested in understanding. For me why Nostr addresses wouldn’t work as DID and the micro strategy proposal “makes sense” is due to spam or a way to limit bots creating addresses ( I totally think that using the Bitcoin base layer is stupid). Could you explain a bit on spam filters, would this be something possible? And how good would they be? I still don’t see how if NOSTR makes content creators profitable and everybody migrated to Nostr how the protocol doesn’t become a bot fest and user experience is severely affected. I don’t follow anything related to Bitcoin on instagram because I get immediately spammed by bots.