No Solutions

#03 - Data Ownership is a Lie

Listen Later

“You’ll get all that for free if you build it right”

In this dialogue:

  • 01: Start Ugly
  • 02: There is No Global
  • Concept of ownership & “Read, Write, Own”
  • Shamir Secret Sharing and Timelocks
  • “No amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.”
  • You can’t prove deletion of a key (or anything, really); best you can do is “burn” bitcoin
  • Data is information, which behaves like an idea (not like an apple)
  • “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – https://dergigi.com/threads/memes-vs-the-world 
  • Why the Pubky architecture isn’t great
  • Cashu 
  • Nutzaps: NIP-60 / NIP-61
  • How nutzaps fix fake zaps on zaplife.lol
  • “Ecash fixes HTTP 402”
  • “[Bitcoin [and nostr]] take advantage of the nature of information being easy to spread but hard to stifle.” –Satoshi Nakamoto
  • Discovery with NIP-89
  • #RunDVM with NIP-90
  • Why micropayments can’t work on credit rails, and how bitcoin is the rediscovery of money.
  • Putting payments into blossom
  • “Money is essen­tially a tool to keep track of who owes what to whom. Broadly speaking, every­thing we have used as money up to now falls into two categories: physical artifacts and infor­ma­tional lists. Or, to use more common parlance: tokens and ledgers.”
  • “maximum utility in the world of Bitcoin entails the adoption of maximum responsibility.”
  • Complexity of Lightning vs the simplicity of eCash
  • Amber and Citrine
  • How Pablo became the BIS
  • 12 words in your head can literally save your life
  • The in-between of custodial and non-custodial in a multi-mint world
  • Nutzaps integrated in chachi.chat
  • The intermediacy of nostr is magic
  • In nostr you’ll get a lot for free IF YOU BUILD IT RIGHT
  • “Free Speech platforms cannot exist; if there is a ‘deplatform’ button, the button will be pressed.”
  • “Neither nostalgia nor utopia.”
  • Solutions that make stuff worse over time vs solutions that make stuff better over time.
  • #asknostr on passkeys, and why we think they’ll make things worse over time.
  • Authentication vs identity: “identification asks, authentication proves”
  • You are not your name and photo; identity is prismatic
  • (m00t’s talk on it at web summit 2011)
  • Starbug from CCC pwning TouchID biometrics from a high-res photo (article)
  • Key rotation and (American) HODL
  • Social recovery 
  • Multi-sig for nostr with FROSTR

    • Links & References

    • Nostr Protocol Repository: https://github.com/nostr-protocol 
    • Cashu (e-cash): https://github.com/cashubtc 
    • NIP-60 (Nutzaps): https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/60.md 
    • NIP-89 (Service Discovery) & NIP-90 (DVMs) – upcoming proposals: https://nips.nostr.com/89 & https://nips.nostr.com/90 

      •  

      ...more
      View all episodesView all episodes
      Download on the App Store
      No SolutionsBy Gigi