Your public key is something you can share with others, yet control. It's portable to any network paradigm in that sense, thus it also transcends IP and DNS.

However, that is only interesting if you have a confident discovery method. We use PKDNS by placing your signed records into the largest, oldest, most decentralized network on the planet.

You can try and reduce this to "any old name server will do" but every other options falls below PKDNS, even when you reduce it to a basic spectrum.

Should people use more than one discovery network? Sure, we all do, right? We use many identities, agents, hosts, networks, etc. But few of those could be interoperable or support user-oriented graphs.

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Really? Do tell me more about public keys πŸ˜‚

To be clear, I'm not 6 years old.

Just so you know, I've had around 50 companies fail to pitch me on how to "solve" DNS for the past 30+ years.

I'm not here to shit on your parade or to attack you or to invest in you, I'm simply giving you a little bit of background from somebody that actually built the Internet we use today.

I wish you well.

β€œβ€¦ from somebody that actually built the Internet we use today.”

So it’s your fault the WiFi here is shit. Thanks Mike!

Hedy Lamarr invented WiFi, blame her πŸ˜‚

Mark’s sister? Is she also a 50s throwback?

In1942 she invented WiFi

During WW2 πŸ˜‚

Older sister = 40s throwback.

Um, okay. I was just replying within the context. I don't care about your personal claims, or your money. Do you have a relevant response or refutation of what I said?

Also, consider this is social media, and I am writing for the benefit of onlookers, not necessarily to persuade you specifically. I already know teaching Nostr cultists is a waste of time.

NOSTR cultists, love it πŸ˜‚

I guess I'm also an Internet cultist, a Bitcoin cultist, an electronics cultist, a corporate cultist and a logic cultist, oh, also a cooking cultist and a cruising cultist.

I'm sure there are some other cults I'm in as well.

Good luck going forward.

I'll leave you with this thought.

There is a difference between solving a problem and offering a better solution.

If you focus on the latter , you'll have more chance.

Last piece of advice, you are clearly having difficulty interacting with people if you have to resort to insults. A key to success is not shit on anybody on the way up, you'll be amazed at how quickly all the people you shit on will bring you back down again.

Be nice, it costs nothing and works incredibly well, even if you fake it.

Genuinely, I wish you well and every success.

You acted as if you wanted to have a design conversation, and then resorted to boring style policing when it got real.

It's clear you have nothing useful to say. I doubt you know much about Bitcoin either.

Zzzzzz

Very interesting conversation.

Thank you.

You've helped me make a decision I was unsure about until now.

Write a book about it.

No, I'm not an author.

I am, however, editing my grandfathers book ready for publication.

It's about Navy life at the turn of the previous century from 1898 - 1921.