@jack know anyone already working on permissionless DNS?
bitchat 1.2.0 (purple) shipping to testflight tonight.
this enables mutual favorites to automatically switch to a nostr-based transport when one of them leaves the mesh. only for private messages for now using NIP-17.
basically people can bitchat in person, favorite each other at that time, and then can continue the conversation if internet is available through nostr, from any distance. no need to input a npub or know anything about nostr. it just works.
https://github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat/pull/358
Discussion
HNS (handshake)
Thx, I didn't know that one. Still it is yet another "buy my token scheme". We do not need that. You can do it on Bitcoin directly. Send regular a tx with one extra output with a less than 80bytes op_return. That contains the hash Id of a registration.
Registrationss are kept track on a side chain. Each registration holds one or more claims. Each claim assigns a too level domain.tld to one or more holder key ids (public key hashes) and an optional signature, requited to prove ownership for claims that change already owned domains.
Once the bitcoin block holding the tx that confirms the registration is confirmed, so is that entry on the mempool of the registration protocol.
This provides source of truth for both domains and TLS certificates, which must both be signed by one of the domain owner keys to be valid.