Constantly validating against the blockchain actually isn't ...

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Constantly validating against the blockchain actually isn't as difficult as it might appear at first glance. This was gently pointed out to me by nostr:npub1t6jxfqz9hv0lygn9thwndekuahwyxkgvycyscjrtauuw73gd5k7sqvksrw in the note below.

And I think Nostr clients other than Inkan are starting to do this validation. From the replies to the note below, it looks like Amethyst has caught on to it.

Also, I think that speaking of "external trust" is slightly misleading or at least infelicitous, because it sounds like we are proposing to trust a bank or a government or Microsoft or something. What's being trusted here are blockchains like Bitcoin, which are decentralized and are trusted with millions of dollars by fairly sophisticated agents.

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