Recently listened to this podcast on the WhatsApp’s key transparency system. I started to consider a few things.

First, how the field of cryptography is endlessly fascinating and does serve to create systems that feel a bit like magic.

Second, centralizing management and agency just breeds complexity. And at the scale of WhatsApp it just mind boggling.

#nostr of course pushes this management complexity to the edge of the graph where I currently feel it’s best.

However I do recognize this as a potential blocker for larger adoption. If a multi billion dollar project like WhatsApp does this what does it say about the populous and their desire for control?

Also good grief with their “distributed validation” 🙄

#nostr #cryptography #grownostr

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5JDBvBMb1JoZYcBelFO9PZ?si=uXPBTGZFQjG8_HpVCQ7vPg