hodlbod on Nostr: I think the bootstrapping should be more open-ended, and I'm skeptical of stuff that ...
I think the bootstrapping should be more open-ended, and I'm skeptical of stuff that tries to put things on bitcoin. OTS is a neat idea, but it's centralized in practice, and isn't long-term economical. This seems similar.
That said, it could be one good way to do it, although my ideal would be to use the web of trust to validate bootstrapped-trust providers, who would vouch for new pubkeys (using a badge or something). How the new pubkey gets that badge would be completely open-ended — it could be a captcha, payment, proof of work, KYC check, whatever. The badge would then expire after a short period of time, during which the new user would want to gain followers to get into the web.
That said, it could be one good way to do it, although my ideal would be to use the web of trust to validate bootstrapped-trust providers, who would vouch for new pubkeys (using a badge or something). How the new pubkey gets that badge would be completely open-ended — it could be a captcha, payment, proof of work, KYC check, whatever. The badge would then expire after a short period of time, during which the new user would want to gain followers to get into the web.