All centralization will be attacked. Bitcoin implementation centralization was the last angle to exploit, and so it has been. A healthyimplementation landscape means at least a handful of competing node projects with double digit usage base percentages and at least 3 different languages, some of them memory safe BTW.

Imagine a world un which you generate a pair of keys at home, get some sats, and can pay a TX fee so that you reserve a doman name for yourself for the next 7 years. In such a domain, the ownership of your keys allows you to be your DNS authoritative source AND TLS CA. No intermediaries, no registrars, no other certification authority other than yourself.

This smells as dispair on their side

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.

@jack know anyone already working on permissionless DNS?

It seems you are not aware of the dire situation of the Argentinian finances Milei inherited. Defusing such ticking bomb without a default is not an easy feat. The IMF is used to countries that waste the loans and fall deeper into their net. Milei is using surplus after surplus to avoid that. So far has managerd to avoid hyperinflation, reverse economic downtrend into growth and remove the "cepo" (internal exchange controls with the USD).

Next step is closing the Central Bank.

From now on, USDs may flow in and the treasury might be able to sell bonds in the regular markets. The exposure to IMF loans should reduce or disappear over the years, if peronists don't return to office. If Milei keeps going to the IMF without a good reason, then you might have a reason to criticize. It is not the case for now.

Before and after. Again as a serial defaulter the IMF and whatever other funding you can get, including China's loans, are not optional. It is either that or total collapse.

It is like a drug, and the only way out is fiscal responsibility until you can repay those loans and not ask for more, because you can fund yourself or get regular funding in the markets.

I do NOT think there was any real choice there.

Back in the real world, the Central Bank of Argentina had a huge amount of negative reserves. If you think the US or EU are essentially bankrupt, Argentina is at another level.

Nobody lends money to serial defaulters.

Milei wants to achieve the almost impossible, deactivate the Central Bank ticking bomb without defaulting in the process, trying to minimize the pain for the population in the transition. So far he is managing it, inflation trend has reversed and capital controls might be close to be removed. Next big milestone after that I believe is closing the Central Bank for good, so next politician in power cannot print the population into oblivion.

If that ends up working, Argentina might be able to fund the government through normal markets again, pay the IMF loans and be done with them.

Milei so called "dollarization" is really not such, instead the law allows to chose currency. Argentinians prefer dollars today, and compared to Pesos, who can blame them?

But once they get used to measure inflation in yearly terms, instead of monthly, they will see the dollar is probably not the last currency they want to hodl. Bitcoin is inevitable and may have a better law environment there than in most other countries.

Right. But for now Linux is basically for nerds (like myself). Normies do not care to control their NixOS setup with nix packages and flakes to be fully reproducible, or buy a relatively pricey phone such as Pixel a series so that they can run Graphene OS to try scape the Google or Apple digital jails

Imagine a mobile devive with similar UX to an iPhone or Android, but being totally open source underneath, from one of several vendors who do not engage on services, just sell fully working devices, old school. By default, your docs & media gets backed up to your own devices, not the cloud. And you didn't configure a thing. Imagine an open router device with your own Tor relay server facing the Internet. Imagine Tor browsing by default and the regukar browsing being " the othet option". Imagine 1-2 TByte storage in that router to backup your files there, instead of on somebody elses computer. A more powerful and expensive version for nerds also allows to run your Bitcoin and LN nodes and Nostr relay.

Imaging open source development being funded by companies that just sell devices. Not barebones hardware loading a proprietary OEM closed source OS, but actual working devices out of the box running fully open source. Running images you could check the signatures for online, if your nerdiness required it.

We have all the right foundations: Linux, Grapheme OS, Tor, Nostr, Bitcoin, Lightning, etc.

We now just need to onboard the Normie's into open and privacy by default devices. Normie's do not install stuff, they buy things. It has to be convenient if it is going to work.

Still, next vector of atack from authorities is that we all access the Internet through hardware and software controlled by a handful of companies, Single Points of Failure that can be easily coerced into bugging the OS or even the hardware itself.

We need open devices to run not just Bitcoin nodes or Nostr relays, but phones and computers that even normies can use.

Open and user friendly devices in which we know a send syscall will not be tracked by some closed source AI powered filter, or that the device itself is not collecting data to send to the HQs, or allowing rear door access somehow.

Anyone knows someone already working on that?