Strong identity only helps inside a circle of trust
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concrete, concrete, cryptographically, secure identity only, it only matters, it's only desirable when there's trust.
Episode 128: Fully Fingered (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:22:19 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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On Nostr: a cryptographically secure identity is valuable in a trusted community like your Mastodon instance, but outside it (say, a controversial comment on a random blog) it can become a liability. Bitcoiners learned this and stopped reusing addresses.
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Episode 128: Fully Fingered (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:29:32 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
In the beginning in the early early early days of Bitcoin everybody tended to reuse the same wallet ID because it was sort of it was sort of like an identity.
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Episode 129: Turkish Punk (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:21:42 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
I really think it's the identity piece.
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