beautyon on Nostr: Nostr: “A web with authenticity where every note is signed.” This is not true, ...
Nostr: “A web with authenticity where every note is signed.”
This is not true, and whoever wrote this doesn't understand what a Digital Signauture is.
Digital Signatures are made with unique text files called "Private Keys". They are not biometric keys and do not require a human to put them in a computer process.
A machine can make a digitally signed message and post it to Nostr; it is trivially easy to do because keys (which are merely strings of text [https://medium.com/swlh/why-america-cant-regulate-bitcoin-8c77cee8d794]) can be assigned as variables in any programming language.
The undercurrent thinking here is the Statist obsession with everyone on earth being uniquely identifiable by an ID Card of some sort, "To stop the Trolls and Spammers". Sorry; Nostr does not fix spam.
Nostr: "A web that's machine payable by default."
This line shows that the person who wrote it doesn't understand Public Key Encryption or how Bitcoin works.
If a machiine can pay money with Bitcoin (sign a message with a Private Key) automatically, why can't a machine make an unlimited number of spam posta (yes, "Posta") on Nostr using a Private key to sign and post a message?
The answer is there is nothing stopping machines from posting on Nostr. It also costs nothing to post on Nostr (but costs something for people to run nodes for other people who don't pay; a fundamental impediment to built in anti-Spam). Oh dear.
There is a lot of breathless talk about Nostr, and thoughtful enthusiasm in general is good, because without enthusiasm, developers (who as Will just said are not being paid) will not work on it.
The direction of travel is essentially correct on a very high level, but direction of travel and wishful thinking is not a destination, and without rational thinking taking what things actually are, and economics into account at the most basic level (that machines can sign messages, and authenticity doesn't come from clearsigning text with a Private Key [https://medium.com/@beautyon_/beach-boy-bitcoin-64f62bed4c7e] and that it costs money to run nodes and scale and a great many other things...) it is not possible for the fantasies of Nostr fanatics to come true.
Primal may be on to something with its integrated Bitcoin wallet. That's the single thing that makes me post "here". It remains to be seen what comes next, and I'm certainly paying attention to the software that gets released. Less impressive is the gushing nonsense of fanboys I'm afraid.
This is not true, and whoever wrote this doesn't understand what a Digital Signauture is.
Digital Signatures are made with unique text files called "Private Keys". They are not biometric keys and do not require a human to put them in a computer process.
A machine can make a digitally signed message and post it to Nostr; it is trivially easy to do because keys (which are merely strings of text [https://medium.com/swlh/why-america-cant-regulate-bitcoin-8c77cee8d794]) can be assigned as variables in any programming language.
The undercurrent thinking here is the Statist obsession with everyone on earth being uniquely identifiable by an ID Card of some sort, "To stop the Trolls and Spammers". Sorry; Nostr does not fix spam.
Nostr: "A web that's machine payable by default."
This line shows that the person who wrote it doesn't understand Public Key Encryption or how Bitcoin works.
If a machiine can pay money with Bitcoin (sign a message with a Private Key) automatically, why can't a machine make an unlimited number of spam posta (yes, "Posta") on Nostr using a Private key to sign and post a message?
The answer is there is nothing stopping machines from posting on Nostr. It also costs nothing to post on Nostr (but costs something for people to run nodes for other people who don't pay; a fundamental impediment to built in anti-Spam). Oh dear.
There is a lot of breathless talk about Nostr, and thoughtful enthusiasm in general is good, because without enthusiasm, developers (who as Will just said are not being paid) will not work on it.
The direction of travel is essentially correct on a very high level, but direction of travel and wishful thinking is not a destination, and without rational thinking taking what things actually are, and economics into account at the most basic level (that machines can sign messages, and authenticity doesn't come from clearsigning text with a Private Key [https://medium.com/@beautyon_/beach-boy-bitcoin-64f62bed4c7e] and that it costs money to run nodes and scale and a great many other things...) it is not possible for the fantasies of Nostr fanatics to come true.
Primal may be on to something with its integrated Bitcoin wallet. That's the single thing that makes me post "here". It remains to be seen what comes next, and I'm certainly paying attention to the software that gets released. Less impressive is the gushing nonsense of fanboys I'm afraid.