Sunset soon...
GN
Want!
For the non-techies I am now calling a signed #nostr event a “Portable Durable Record”, or PDR, so it sounds boring and similar to “PDF”, or “Portable Document Format”
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Creating the event id based on the digest of the following is the core genius of #nostr. In one fell swoop, binding together the author, semantics and content, the digest of which is uniquely identified for time immemorial.
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It’s all I need. Just finished re-reading NIP-03. Once I get the other attestations implemented, I will implement this one.
Would you need anything in addition to NIP-03? https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/03.md
Nope. NIP-03 does the job.
Verification proves a moment.
Key based identity proves continuity.
That difference is the whole game.
The key piece I need, and which I believe the only way it can be provided is with the Bitcoin blockchain, is a time-based attestation.
Today’s institutions obsess over verification while quietly neglecting the harder problem: endurance.
Organizations ask whether a claim can be checked, but not whether it can survive—whether it can be carried across platforms, outlast vendors, resist erasure, and still speak with authority when everything around it has changed.
What matters is not that a record can be verified once, but that it can be produced again and again, by its holder, without permission, without translation, and without institutional scaffolding.
Verification answers Is this true?
Durability answers the more dangerous question: Who can still act when the system that issued the answer is gone?
More on this in 2026.
#thingsincontrol
GN
#emacs
Verify. Accept.
A simple acceptance model: Assert. Attest. Recognize.
https://github.com/trbouma/safebox/blob/dev-verify/docs/ACCEPTANCE-MODEL.md
Yeah, “what if I lose my phone?” - that’s the key issue I identified. They want you to be dependent on your phone. The comeback is to store those passkeys in your platform account - in that case you are now chained to your account as well, and the security is only as good as access to your account.
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