Has everyone read this article about NOSTR?
https://twitter.com/level39/status/1632240495396044800
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Part of it. Thought most of it was pointless.
Cliff Notes for those off of Twitter for the month?
Well the 'DID' (decentralized ID) folks associated with Impervious, Bluesky, Zion and Web5 want Nostr to conform to standards that have taken a considerable amount of time to deliberate. The article points out significant shortcomings that may arise if someone truly wanted to build an identity with nostr, and if keys were lost, didn't have another trusted account to declare a new account trustworthy from. Fiatjaf has had some words to say about the leftists who make up the W3C. Still DIDs are pretty alright, for one, they are based on the Bitcoin Blockchain, which many leftist groups don't even touch. Article seemed to aim to steer sentiments of the nostr dev community to be more open towards DID interoperability than will and fiatjaf have been.
Ahh. Build out the world you want to see & may the best products win.
Yeah, as far as Bluesky goes... I want them to interact with my npub or I'm probably not too interested. I'll try it out, maybe ill be suprised. there are a few things doing some of the same things that Nostr is. And I bet they wish they got started a year earlier. Which I think is why they are so upset, they spent so long just talking about which direction to go. Instead of just building without direction like Nostr. I feel like Bitcoin more has a business plan than Nostr does.
Indeed. Nostr builds without a clear direction because it is actually being built in many directions by diverse people fueled by different incentives.
I’m not sure any company can match that.
Yeah, I love the decentralization for development of clients and microapps. It worries me as far as development on the protocol goes. I feel like more time could have gotten spent on the protocol. But maybe it just would have made for a less simple protocol.
But I guess with Bitcoin, we started just doing stuff with it right away. Bitcoin protocol change has been compared to "upgrading the engine while the plane is still flying." But even with Bitcoin, protocol development is more centralized than development on top of Bitcoin.
It's a good thread. Nostr has a _long_ way to go before it's safe to use as an identity. Or even, arguably, safe to use at all.
During Bitcoin.review, nvk brought up the idea of a parent public key, like a xpub and we keep that super safe and use child keys. Fiatjaf wasn't liking it. There might be something there, although I don't know how NIP05s would work with that.
He might have been complaining about the specific cryptographic technique proposed in that case; in general nostr certainly needs delegated keys. No doubt about thst.
Is there a way to have a Multisig root key like FROST that lets you delegate private keys?
I’m not really familiar with this, is it similar to NIP-41?
It’s FUD
First half is helpful. Second half is a bitch fest with a few useful elements sprinkled in. Nostr is open. DID supporters are free to integrate with it if they choose.
