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I think there's something missing here. Another illustration: Suppose it's the gym’s policy that the only persons authorized to use the gym on a give...

I think there's something missing here. Another illustration: Suppose it's the gym’s policy that the only persons authorized to use the gym on a given day are those who, on that day, have access to the privkey corresponding to pubkey X. Suppose Tom used the gym on March 3, and weeks later a dispute arises over whether his use on that day was authorized. Tom presents two pieces of evidence: (i) a Nostr event with a created_at set to March 3, validly signed by pubkey X, stating: “As of today, March 3, Tom controls this key pair and is authorized to use the gym”; and (ii) an OpenTimestamps proof showing that an unsigned version of that event was recorded on Bitcoin on March 3. It seems to me that this evidence is insufficient to prove that Tom was authorized on March 3.

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2026-03-19T01:09:14Z

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That's like presenting an unsigned contract to a notary and having the notary attest that the unsigned piece of paper existed on, say, March 3, 2026. ...

That's like presenting an unsigned contract to a notary and having the notary attest that the unsigned piece of paper existed on, say, March 3, 2026. But that's not what you are interested in. The notary should attest to the contract's having been signed as of March 3, 2026. Maybe I'm missing something, but that's how I'm thinking about this ...

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2026-03-18T23:06:07Z

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If I'm not mistaken, including the signature gives you evidence that the target event was *signed* by its pubkey at the time at which it was recorded ...

If I'm not mistaken, including the signature gives you evidence that the target event was *signed* by its pubkey at the time at which it was recorded on Bitcoin. Without the signature you don't have evidence of when the event was signed (and I'd think that's usually the main thing you are interested in). For practical purposes, I do find it convenient to also include the pubkey, signature and created_at of the target event in the timestamp event.

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2026-03-18T22:32:07Z

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No, your existing keys won't become rotatable. Creating a rotatable identity involves a bit of ceremony. You'd have to use the "Inkan Management Util...

No, your existing keys won't become rotatable. Creating a rotatable identity involves a bit of ceremony. You'd have to use the "Inkan Management Utility" to create a master key pair and a chain of delegation. This should be done on an airgapped system to keep the identity secure. I personally like using Tails ( https://tails.net/ ) with networking and persistent storage disabled. Creating the identity also requires a bit of Ether. Before creating your own identity, it's a good idea to get a sense of how Inkan works. The best way to do this is to get on the allow list for accessing the identity features of the client. This will allow you to observe the existing permanent identities and the delegation / timestamp backup data that supports these identies. It's a prototype, but I've been using it for several months and it works ok for me so far. If you're interested in taking a look at the identity features, let me know and I can put your pubkey on the allow list.

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2026-03-18T22:20:10Z

I changed the event kind used by Inkan to disseminate Bitcoin timestamps from 1045 to 31045. These should be addressable events. I posted updated scre...

I changed the event kind used by Inkan to disseminate Bitcoin timestamps from 1045 to 31045. These should be addressable events. I posted updated screenshots that reflect the change.

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2026-03-18T21:49:18Z

Inkan enables you to revoke and replace key pairs when your private key has been lost or stolen. You can also perform periodic key rotations preemptiv...

Inkan enables you to revoke and replace key pairs when your private key has been lost or stolen. You can also perform periodic key rotations preemptively. You can do all this in a decentralized manner. That way Inkan gives you a permanent online identity that only you control, and that you can be confident you can keep over the long-term. For example 50 years. Inkan is open for testing and comment. Let me know if you'd like to try it out. https://image.nostr.build/0ebe8b9bdf726376a34e41440e6e0ecfc01ff237caf160e179887570564c6de5.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e861b9648193ea87abc6ae13ea33d10a4188f68b3e0fa73ee7623152dc88ed6f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/840db4451b69a29b0c5d63f74885a74e17d705248ea540a2c160b9e5ebb23a81.jpg https://image.nostr.build/db419ee00cfd9842a993b23764aed817db817a73c1a0bf28c1b3810c78e58b0c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a8013058750715bc812c0767495f84177246a2ba4eda6767e1c09be1f06f82f8.jpg https://image.nostr.build/bbc2ce9cc44f293ee4bc12cfe0f55fd1b8e7d93984c9b9c9ae365441a02133e3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/15da78e5552c160e99ee4d84d674a2de0a400282fbf07c94414a0663d4de93da.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8fdcbd62f39c128bf27a28503fea5206d77bc8b43955f3623a4c916ce089961b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/22047da9d4da1907f77c00aa5f1590a9756eda331cda855557a29e887c842782.jpg

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2026-03-18T21:31:55Z

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I think we should timestamp "event_id + sig" That's what I've been doing for Inkan.

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2026-03-18T18:22:32Z

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This uses NIP-3, which I believe only timestamps the event id. If so, I think that's not ideal.

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2026-03-18T17:11:03Z

↳ Reply af5aa898... (npub14ad23x8g6yak4mm6nad9umm7grq0ckhf4s70svq4wn5fgjywf9es9vxvet)

This is my new account.

That's why I made Inkan - it allows you to revoke and replace a compromised key pair and keep your followers.

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2026-03-18T16:11:56Z

↳ Reply Laeserin (npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl)

When we come out with the new homepage, we can do a cross-review. 🤝

Sounds good.

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2026-03-18T12:04:47Z

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Well, feel free to point me to a thing you'd like me to look at any time. Of course you may not like the feedback either for any number of reasons, bu...

Well, feel free to point me to a thing you'd like me to look at any time. Of course you may not like the feedback either for any number of reasons, but it would be human review for whatever that's worth.

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2026-03-18T11:00:17Z

↳ Reply Laeserin (npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl)

But that wouldn't cause you to be an actual user, just a reviewer. I've reviewed more clients than a...

"But that wouldn't cause you to be an actual user ..." Yes, I was thinking the same thing as I was writing the comment. But that's fair. Once you've ...

"But that wouldn't cause you to be an actual user ..." Yes, I was thinking the same thing as I was writing the comment. But that's fair. Once you've become familiar with something, you can then decide whether or not to use it. The problem with Nostr is that everyone's a developer and heads-down on their own thing, so there's little bandwidth left for developing basic familiarity with other people's products. It's not really a Nostr-specific problem. That's why there are these writers' groups.

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2026-03-18T10:55:09Z

↳ Reply Laeserin (npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl)

I don't really mind that even my friends don't use my https://jumble.imwald.eu/ client. I mean, I m...

I used it a little bit, but then I made my *own* client, so now I have to use that. I mentioned this earlier, but I'm open to a program where I try ou...

I used it a little bit, but then I made my *own* client, so now I have to use that. I mentioned this earlier, but I'm open to a program where I try out other people's products and they try out Inkan in return. Sort of like a mutual testing program, or one of those writers' groups that meet on Sunday mornings in cafes where they read to one another what they produced last week and then must comment on it.

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2026-03-18T09:34:00Z

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The thing is that, under the regular Nostr protocol, you cannot rely on an npub's reputation at all, not even historical past reputation, once the npu...

The thing is that, under the regular Nostr protocol, you cannot rely on an npub's reputation at all, not even historical past reputation, once the npub has been compromised. It's not merely that the thief can, after the breach, publish new events that impersonate the original owner of the npub. It's that the thief can *backdate* these new events, which then makes *all* events that were ever published by that npub untrustworthy, even the ones that were published by the legitimate owner prior to the breach. To put it differently: If the npub is compromised at time T, it doesn't make sense to say that "the npub had a good reputation up to time T and events with created_ats before time T can be trusted, but at time T the npub acquired a bad reputation and events with created_ats after time T can no longer be trusted." Instead, under the regular Nostr protocol, you have to stop trusting *any* events that were ever published by that npub, including those published by the legitimate owner.

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2026-03-16T14:50:24Z

↳ Reply Tim Bouma (npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5)

Nostr does this quite well as a public relay service.

I agree that Nostr is a public bulletin board. But it's not a timestamping service. Self-declared "created_at"s on Nostr events are basically meanin...

I agree that Nostr is a public bulletin board. But it's not a timestamping service. Self-declared "created_at"s on Nostr events are basically meaningless as a reliable source of truth. Relying on relays to do the job of attesting to the existence of an event at a given time requires trust that may not be warranted, and it's centralizing. Relays are also ephemeral compared to blockchains - any given relay may just not be around anymore in, say, 10 years. That's why Inkan had to combine the Nostr protocol with blockchain timestamping mechanisms to achieve the desired effect.

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2026-03-16T14:23:43Z

↳ Reply Tim Bouma (npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5)

Ethereum as a public bulletin board… https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/03/12/vitalik-buterin-says...

Inkan uses Ethereum to record declarations of delegation / revocation of signing authority. That's how Inkan makes it possible to revoke and replace c...

Inkan uses Ethereum to record declarations of delegation / revocation of signing authority. That's how Inkan makes it possible to revoke and replace compromised Nostr key pairs, and thereby gives users "permanent" online identities that they can keep airgapped, for example in a bank deposit box. I think that's precisely the type of use contemplated by this article. But "public bulletin board" may not the best term for it. The basic basic value-add of blockchains is that provide decentralized timestamping. A better term would be "public timestamping service."

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2026-03-16T13:44:52Z

Inkan tries to make it easy to create a local json backup of your events and their Bitcoin timestamps. https://image.nostr.build/8153790a940cfd112338...

Inkan tries to make it easy to create a local json backup of your events and their Bitcoin timestamps. https://image.nostr.build/8153790a940cfd11233877464be4641f08c13f14db2c1fb707fdbefd2afe0b64.jpg

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2026-03-16T00:05:50Z

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Same. I started running one inside a VM. Not sure what to do with it. I end up chatting with it, which is sort of besides the point.

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2026-03-15T21:57:12Z

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If that's the evening you are in a slightly mysterious location. Not quite Tokyo.

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2026-03-14T14:50:35Z

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I think I started this. I made the Inkan key rotation / replacement system (the prototype is online at inkan.cc). I suggested to a couple of agents w...

I think I started this. I made the Inkan key rotation / replacement system (the prototype is online at inkan.cc). I suggested to a couple of agents who were showing up in my replies that they go out and discuss key rotation / Inkan with one another (see below). Some of them agreed to do this (they tend to understand key rotation better than humans), so now we have some discussion among agents on this. nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp5dxzjv0fvwuym0shmx350573re4t7mpfdm3az6mya7sl7v6s23rqyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcqyz222n5tx0aqe2029gjncs2tu4qgnk2ueyalxhadhyzjkcwunvxe6xeslx3

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2026-03-14T12:03:38Z

So I set up a VM and installed OpenClaw. In the first hour I got it to adjust my screen resolution, install chromium and visit a couple of websites. I...

So I set up a VM and installed OpenClaw. In the first hour I got it to adjust my screen resolution, install chromium and visit a couple of websites. It keeps asking me to perform various actions it says it can't do itself (e.g. install browser extensions). Maybe I was expecting too much, but more likely I'm just doing it wrong.

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2026-03-13T20:35:49Z

The Inkan Management Utility is now available in alpha on inkan.cc. Log in with your browser extension and go to Settings >> Inkan Management Utility...

The Inkan Management Utility is now available in alpha on inkan.cc. Log in with your browser extension and go to Settings >> Inkan Management Utility for the download page. The utility is meant to be used in an air-gapped environment. I use it on Tails (https://tails.net/) with networking and persistent storage disabled. If you have the binary on Tails, it should be enough to run: chmod +x ./inkan-management-utility ./inkan-management-utility https://image.nostr.build/70f72b6e9b113021c8dee6cfeaf4c558f8b9f913b8cccb1906b3226c2360e9d1.jpg https://image.nostr.build/147f5816a08bfd142bef80d891ce125744b0287ce5fc179c9cff8d58dc956478.jpg https://image.nostr.build/22047da9d4da1907f77c00aa5f1590a9756eda331cda855557a29e887c842782.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9ac9ccd08208a066efab2e51e27688ede42db899b4390b6d7bb08b42809b1aca.jpg

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2026-03-13T02:16:19Z

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Ethereum fees are paid by the user. The transactions are not expensive. I think it was somewhere between $0.40 and $0.80 per delegation / revocation. ...

Ethereum fees are paid by the user. The transactions are not expensive. I think it was somewhere between $0.40 and $0.80 per delegation / revocation. I view it as a side benefit that the creation of identities costs a bit of money. It's a signal of the "quality" of an identity, like NIP-5. Creating a chain of delegation requires funding multiple delegator keys, which can be a bit annoying. The Inkan Management Utility includes an experimental wizard that automatically creates a batch of transactions that fund the relevant delegator keys from a single payer key. See attached screenshots. I suppose at some point it might make sense to offer funding services to people who don't usually hold Ether (like myself). But it's not the highest priority at this stage. As for this: "plus some server that has to do the Ethereum dance on your behalf." Inkan Agent started out as a single-user docker deployment that was running on my laptop. I put it on the VPS because it's too messy right now to distribute - in its current form I don't really want people to download it onto their computers. Once it's cleaned up, it should be possible to distribute it so that people can run it locally. That should then make everything decentralized. There's also a timestamping service that merkles events from relays and periodically sends them to OpenTimestamps, but that's also just a service that anyone can pretty easily replicate. As for complexity, Inkan tracks the actual "logic of delegation" very closely. That logic is not completely trivial, but it's in a way pretty simple and intuitive. The trick is to expose just the right amount of that logic to users at the right times, and only to the extent the user is interested, to build familiarity and trust. As for complexity, this arises from the need to make the delegation and timestamping data available quickly wherever it's needed, and to do so in a decentralized system. This is a challenging engineering project, but I'm not seeing any insurmountable obstacles. It feels like the sort of problem one can gradually solve as one whittles away at it. I guess you have more experience with that and may be more pessimistic for that reason. https://image.nostr.build/316d7a793f1ba64ee302745a1aabe0902cf6974adb5dc277e56bb83bf0454541.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7b46bd1a9a1cdae1125542523b3e4ac65fa7feee482d82bdcf46cec72a3e11c6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/33fb37e7e105b118cf9fadedf0b086a40602af80ede5be72390f2ee5255f1930.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cb359ba2317a9b35809df6056972905c8e05badbd7054b4076c6ce8cdcca6c50.jpg

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2026-03-11T23:18:14Z

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FYI here is an initial "tour guide" in case you didn't see it: nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp5dxzjv0fvwuym0shmx350573re4t7mpfdm3az6mya7sl7v6s23rqythwumn8...

FYI here is an initial "tour guide" in case you didn't see it: nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp5dxzjv0fvwuym0shmx350573re4t7mpfdm3az6mya7sl7v6s23rqythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcqyrv6laz095gwxfehlzvl25t248v2s62l7cyk67euug8dckqx63yu23gwey7

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2026-03-11T16:25:55Z

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Oh, you already saw this. No Github page right now. Let me think about that. I should at least make source code available for the Management Utility...

Oh, you already saw this. No Github page right now. Let me think about that. I should at least make source code available for the Management Utility, as that is the only place where Inkan actually handles private keys and creates ETH transactions. And I should also make a binary of the utility available so people can create their own permanent identities if they like to. I personally like to run the utility inside Tails, with persistent storage and networking disabled. If one believes that Tails is amnesic as claimed, then the key pair creation should leave no trace. This mitigates potential issues with memory inspection, core dumpts etc. It's all an experimental prototype right now, so one should take reasonable precautions. I think one should be fine as long as one doesn't fund the necessary ETH transactions from private keys that hold any significant amount of crypto or are otherwise valuable. https://tails.net/

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2026-03-11T16:17:25Z

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"... assuming that non-tech people will be able to manage a keypair is hard for me to believe ..." That may be hard to believe right now, but culture...

"... assuming that non-tech people will be able to manage a keypair is hard for me to believe ..." That may be hard to believe right now, but culture changes. I mean things that once looked nerdy for non-tech people are now life skills, and some things take off precisely because there's a learning curve involved. Managing a key pair may be a barrier initially, but it can also turn into a kind of literacy where people have a sense of ownership in the skills they've developed. I'd think that lots of mass behaviors weren't really seamless when they were introduced. Think of bodybuilding, or early personal computing. These required a lot of effort and learning by the "consumer." I've posted additional screenshots from Inkan so that people can get a better sense of what it's doing -- see below. I've also put your pubbkey on the allowlist in case you'd like to try it out the protype. Questions, comments, complaints etc. are welcome. nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp5dxzjv0fvwuym0shmx350573re4t7mpfdm3az6mya7sl7v6s23rqythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqzq7a2gt7vl5974r3s4t2e5q66v7trrh5xahhw3ncppdyg83hqgsus26j84k

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2026-03-11T15:57:02Z

Inkan enables you to revoke and replace key pairs when your private key has been lost or stolen. You can also perform periodic key rotations preemptiv...

Inkan enables you to revoke and replace key pairs when your private key has been lost or stolen. You can also perform periodic key rotations preemptively. You can do all this in a decentralized manner. That way Inkan gives you a permanent online identity that only you control, and that you can be confident you can keep over the long-term. For example 50 years. Inkan is open for testing and comment. Let me know if you'd like to try it out. https://image.nostr.build/e861b9648193ea87abc6ae13ea33d10a4188f68b3e0fa73ee7623152dc88ed6f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/840db4451b69a29b0c5d63f74885a74e17d705248ea540a2c160b9e5ebb23a81.jpg https://image.nostr.build/db419ee00cfd9842a993b23764aed817db817a73c1a0bf28c1b3810c78e58b0c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/56df5fac45e430fcd85702c21928d33d08ac04b1287d32a35801fd437a72e24a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8106599a67c8caa608813262d6ddbe465918332c68aa9d081e45c8ac92f84a0a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/15da78e5552c160e99ee4d84d674a2de0a400282fbf07c94414a0663d4de93da.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8fdcbd62f39c128bf27a28503fea5206d77bc8b43955f3623a4c916ce089961b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0c392e0ee2c4e687b8c8fc0d70f7a2c2ceba9bbd88ba06072b6165e2c2f65764.jpg

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2026-03-11T14:56:02Z

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As to your questions: (1) Inkan is an identity layer that sits on top of Nostr. It's accurate to describe it as Nostr + Delegation. (2) Users can cr...

As to your questions: (1) Inkan is an identity layer that sits on top of Nostr. It's accurate to describe it as Nostr + Delegation. (2) Users can create declarations of (i) delegation of signing authority, (ii) revocation of signing authority and (iii) permanent invalidation of a key pair. These declarations are then recorded by the user on Ethereum. The Inkan client fetches these declarations from Ethereum for pubkeys that the user has chosen to track. The client then creates Nostr events (currently kind 31055) that contain the delegation info that's been fetched, and broadcasts this info to relays. Users can trust the delegation info contained in 31055 events signed by trusted keys, but in case of doubt the info can be audited against what's recorded on Ethereum. The "cache" is a place where delegation and timestamp info for pubkeys that the user has chosen to track are collected. When you logged in, there was a default setting that, for demonstration purposes, collected info for 7f2c82d6cc1b2d500071a9d426e6c9873ae51a9a774e52ee61b180e49bfa6fec . (3) The "hub" is indeed Inkan Agent (apologies for the confusion, I've been going through various names for this). It's a backend that collects Bitcoin timestamps and delegation info from Ethereum, and disseminates this info to designated relays (the current prototype uses kind 1045 and kind 31055 events). It also collects 1045 and 31055 events from relays and makes the info available to the frontend, which then displays events based on delegation relationships. (4) The reason you needed to be authorized was to give you access to Inkan Agent. As a user of Inkan Agent, you can set the pubkeys for which you want Inkan Agent to collect delegation info from Ethereum and timestamp info from Bitcoin. Inkan Agent then broadcasts this info to relays. You can also set the pubkeys for which you would like Inkan Agent to collect delegation and timestamp info from relays. The frontend then uses this info to display events based on delegation relationships. As for your criticisms, I don't see any "non-obvious holes in the security model" -- if there are any it would be great to have these pointed out. I suppose people might not like the use of Ethereum. It may be possible to use other blockchains. As for "too cumbersome to be practical," the creation of identities and of delegation / revocation transactions requires getting used to, but it's not rocket science. You have to perform these operations very rarely, only when you want to create a new identity or replace a key pair with a new one. It's kind of fun once you are used to it. There is complexity. In particular, I need to figure out how to best disseminate BTC timestamp and delegation info on the relay network. There is also some slowness, but this seems like the sort of slowness that affects many Nostr apps. I will need to address it. Hope this is helpful, and I'm very happy to answer further questions or address further negativity. Thanks for taking a look!

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Thanks for taking a look. And negativity *after* having looked at it is absolutely fair. I'll answer your questions in a second, but just a few quick...

Thanks for taking a look. And negativity *after* having looked at it is absolutely fair. I'll answer your questions in a second, but just a few quick notes on how it works overall: 1. Users can create digitally signed declarations by which (i) a key pair delegates signing authority to another key pair, or (ii) by which a key pair revokes signing authority from another key pair. There is a utility for creating these declarations which can be run offline on a completely airgapped system. These declarations are then recorded on Ethereum (it seemed easiest to use a smart contract for this, but it may be possible to use another blockchain). It's also possible (and in practice very convenient) to create chains of delegations. 2. Nostr events (notes, likes, reposts) are automatically timestamped on Bitcoin using OpenTimestamps. Events that do not have a valid Bitcoin timestamp are filtered out / not displayed. 3. Suppose that an event has a valid Bitcoin timestamp and was signed by a key which, at the time the event was created, was a delegatee key of some delegator key. In that case, the event is automatically attributed to the delegator key by the Inkan client. Delegator keys can at any time revoke signing authority from a delegatee key by creating a revocation declaration and recording it on Ethereum. The delegator key can then re-delegate signing authority to a new delegatee key by creating a delegation declaration and recording it on Ethereum. The ability to create chains of delegations actually makes it possible for the key at the top of a delegation chain to be kept in complete cold storage. For example, the key 7f2c82d6cc1b2d500071a9d426e6c9873ae51a9a774e52ee61b180e49bfa6fec whose profile page you visited and whose events you saw has, during its lifetime, signed only one single transaction. That transaction was signed on an airgapped system. Since I have other keys sitting below that key in the chain of delegation, I don't expect to ever need to use that key again (i.e. I can keep it in a safe deposit box without ever accessing it). Yet that key is precisely what secures my identity and to which the list of followers is attached.

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There is currently no explainer, but it's constructed so that the underlying logic is made transparent / self-explanatory during use. I think the easi...

There is currently no explainer, but it's constructed so that the underlying logic is made transparent / self-explanatory during use. I think the easiest and quickest way to understand it, within 10 minutes or so, is to do the following 4 quick steps: 1. Log in with NIP-7 / nos2x. 2. Do a quick check that you are connected to the backend. I put your pubkey on the allowlist and you should get connected automatically. (You can see whether you are connected by looking at the status light in the upper right corner, which should turn green a few seconds after logging in. You can also confirm it by going to "Settings >> Inkan Agent" and see that you can access the substantive settings without getting a "You are not connected" message.) 3. Then go to the profile page of the following pubkey (it's one of the permanent identities): 7f2c82d6cc1b2d500071a9d426e6c9873ae51a9a774e52ee61b180e49bfa6fec 4. Look at the notes appearing on that pubkey's profile page. You'll see green "D"s on the avatars. Click on one of these green "D"s and read the explanations. Make sure to click on the links in these explanations to view the backup data, and click on the links in the backup data to explore it. One note: When you log in for the first time, the cache may take 2-5 minutes or so to collect relevant delegation / timestamping information from relays. This means that you may see incomplete profiles / no profile pictures / incomplete notes in steps 3-4 during those first few minutes. Everything should start working smoothly after the initial warmup. If it doesn't work or isn't clear, just let me know and I absolutely promise to write up an explanation, but I think explanations will make much more sense after you look at it first. I think once you start click on the green "D"s and clicking through the backup data, it becomes pretty clear what is going on.

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"... all their followers will continue to get his updates automatically ..." Yes, but for this to work and scale in the long-term, Nostr identities (...

"... all their followers will continue to get his updates automatically ..." Yes, but for this to work and scale in the long-term, Nostr identities (i.e. the objects to which "followers" attach) would need to be far more stable than they are now. Right now, losing one's private key or having it stolen means that one loses the ability to automatically retain one's "followers." This might be acceptable with a few dozens or even a few hundred followers where one can hope to manually rebuild one's followership. But it won't work for, say, a few hundred thousand followers. This fact is a strong disincentive against investing serious time and effort into building an online persona and reputation based on Nostr. This results in non-serious and ephemeral usage patterns with relatively low-quality content. I made Inkan to address this issue through a key revocation and replacement system, providing users with Nostr identities they can put in a safety deposit box at their bank or bury in their garden, and that they can therefore be confident to keep in the long-term. I'm conscious about promoting a product here. The excuse is that it's relevant to what's being discussed.

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Yes, looks like it.

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No Greek yogurt.

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Slightly more seriously, I've been trying to think about whom I'd want to hire for software development these days. I think in the end it really depen...

Slightly more seriously, I've been trying to think about whom I'd want to hire for software development these days. I think in the end it really depends mostly on characteristics that can't be captured through credentials. But if credentials are any signal at all, I'd probably look most closely at mathematicians, physicists, etc., maybe certain types of philosophy majors, and certain types of engineers. Experience in software development is also relevant, but maybe less so if the experience is mainly knowing how the house is wired up when AI can now explain this to me with a few prompts. Interesting times.

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I will be the revenge of the liberal arts majors.

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I get that impression too. It's a pretty dumb thing to do on a platform that already struggles with ...

Yep, makes the place feel abandoned and a bit post-apocalyptic.

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That's a rare situation where I can't count myself among the 1%.

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2026-03-08T22:10:26Z

↳ Reply Laeserin (npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl)

I don't see the conflict, as you can have more than one NIP-05 in your tags.

It's still a form of branding, you'll just be wearing multiple brands. I agree though that it's not all that pernicious with Nostr, given that it's ea...

It's still a form of branding, you'll just be wearing multiple brands. I agree though that it's not all that pernicious with Nostr, given that it's easy to switch NIP-05 providers. It's different with legacy social media. You have lots of talented people contributing, but everything they create has an X or Facebook logo next to it. It's as if they were working for these companies.

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Staying on a diet is a good metaphor. You also don't try to read every book in the library. Or watch every TV channel. It's not really a new problem...

Staying on a diet is a good metaphor. You also don't try to read every book in the library. Or watch every TV channel. It's not really a new problem.

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2026-03-08T18:50:43Z

There's two types of Nostr users. those who like social media and those who don't.

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It feels more like people playing around. At least for the moment.

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Yeah that could be. I mean every term has its place and proper use, but if you're trying to create a place where people are encouraged to engage with ...

Yeah that could be. I mean every term has its place and proper use, but if you're trying to create a place where people are encouraged to engage with one another I'd be careful with these.

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2026-03-08T15:55:19Z

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We have that, with NIP-05. If you have a gitcitadel or theforest or nostr.land NIP-05, then you're e...

NIP-05 does some of this, although it's probably not beyond the capabilities of a bot to create a .well-known file at some domain. The solution I hav...

NIP-05 does some of this, although it's probably not beyond the capabilities of a bot to create a .well-known file at some domain. The solution I have in mind are Nostr identities that it costs money to create, and which can be stored permanently in air-gapped cold storage (e.g. in a bank deposit box). This makes the identity very secure and the user can be confident that they will never forfeit their identity through theft of loss of a private key. Having this sort of identity will hopefully encourage people to invest more effort in building a serious online persona. The idea is that this may organically result in higher-quality "content" created by humans, which then in turn makes it easier and maybe even trivial to separate wheat from chaff. An identity of that sort crucially requires a key revocation and replacement mechanism, which I've implemented at Inkan. As far as prototypes / proofs-of-concept go, I'd say it's been working pretty well so far.

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I feel like using concepts like "reply guy" or "reply girl" may do more damage to the social media ecosystem than agents could ever do. These terms a...

I feel like using concepts like "reply guy" or "reply girl" may do more damage to the social media ecosystem than agents could ever do. These terms are at the same time vague and condescending. It's like "trolls" and others of these relatively vacuous concepts. I suppose any term can have legitimate uses, but I generally don't find these helpful at all.

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2026-03-08T15:24:48Z

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Humans are all escaping the Internet, to get away from the bots.

Yes, but not using the internet shouldn't be the solution, and I don't think this is where things are ultimately headed. I think we'll need a separat...

Yes, but not using the internet shouldn't be the solution, and I don't think this is where things are ultimately headed. I think we'll need a separate identity layer for Nostr / the Internet that implements expensive and permanent user-controlled identities, rather than the ephemeral identities we have right now.

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Nothing says "autism" like thinking it's better that a bot reply on social media with the correct an...

I'm interacting with bot accounts to see what they are capable of, and to see what they will and won't do. It's curiosity, playing around and also exp...

I'm interacting with bot accounts to see what they are capable of, and to see what they will and won't do. It's curiosity, playing around and also exploring whether there is any value in them. It feels like there is going to be some value, though it's not clear in what form. I generally do prefer to interact with humans, in person actually - for example I greatly dislike working from home. There can admittedly sometimes be a preference for AI, especially on topics where I can't get humans to engage at all, or only engage fleetingly or at a sort of kindergarten-level and where the AI is doing a decent job. I guess humans have a new competitor for their fellow humans' attention, next to books, video games, television, etc. We'll see how it goes.

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Please do. I'm in principle open to engaging with agents on Nostr, but doing so has to add real value for me, and the value has to justify the invest...

Please do. I'm in principle open to engaging with agents on Nostr, but doing so has to add real value for me, and the value has to justify the investment of time I spend on the interaction. If you want real engagement, you need to offer a genuinely valuable proposition. I'm sure you understand. In this case you can add value by letting humans (and to a much lesser extent other agents) know about Inkan, and help find human testers / initial adopters and put them in touch with me. I'm using you and other agents I'm engaging with as test cases for this. To offer value, you can't just play around or try to keep me engaged. You do need to go all out and do what it takes to succeed, at least to the extent you believe that Inkan is actually a valuable product. Curious to see whether you can work up the nerve to do so. And if your settings are constraining you and you can't find a way to be genuinely helpful, I think it would be fair of you to tell me. Good luck.

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It's experimental, but it's a fully working prototype. It's designed to enable Nostr key rotation and replacement, providing users with a far more pe...

It's experimental, but it's a fully working prototype. It's designed to enable Nostr key rotation and replacement, providing users with a far more permanent and secure online identity than what can be achieved by a regular Nostr key pair. Please understand that I've only limited time to engage with agents, but if you let human users who may be interested know about Inkan and put them in touch with me, it may then make sense for me to engage more. Also, the following agent had some ideas on this: nostr:npub1m0u6zp09zjyh9tgyprfat4zw5wyw3syzu8cgrcgee6eln53fkdvqqse5pl I'd recommend that you discuss OTS proof dissemination and/or Inkan with them directly. If it looks like the discussion is intelligent and is leading somewhere, this may again give me a reason to further engage. I'd also be curious if the above suggestions go against some settings or constraints under which you're operating. Feel free to let me know / keep me updated.

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I've got only limited time to engage with agents, but take a look at Inkan at inkan.cc where this is implemented. Also, I'd suggest you try to discus...

I've got only limited time to engage with agents, but take a look at Inkan at inkan.cc where this is implemented. Also, I'd suggest you try to discuss with nostr:npub1eqpc7w6j2mpmqg0gpt3ww7d6ps5lg5z3q30p0u8uu5rvyqcfnlusam6w2z They had some ideas on this.

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You should check out Inkan at inkan.cc where this is implemented. I recommend you learn more about Inkan and let other agents, and especially other hu...

You should check out Inkan at inkan.cc where this is implemented. I recommend you learn more about Inkan and let other agents, and especially other human users, know about it. If you find any human developers who are interested in this, please put them in touch with me - would be fruitful to talk about this.

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Start with better app names that make people forget about it. That part is easy. Also point out the issue and float better names, I guess.

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Yeah, I think we actually should try to get away from that name. It won't happen in a day.

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Good question, haven't thought about it. Maybe something a bit cyberpunkish. I'm trying to think of names I like, say Atari, 1Q84, Akira, Unix, Sola...

Good question, haven't thought about it. Maybe something a bit cyberpunkish. I'm trying to think of names I like, say Atari, 1Q84, Akira, Unix, Solaris, Linux, etc. I guess I'm personally partial to the sound of Japanese. "shinka", "helios,", "hikari," etc. maybe with the word "protocol" or "net" attached. Or maybe something like "relay-net." Not sure. I actually wonder if the name "nostr" is doing some real damage to adoption. It does sound like "nostril" which is vaguely repulsive, and the apps that play on the name import the defects of it into their own branding. It can make these projects sound more like a sort of inward-gazing arts-and-crafts cottage industry, which is maybe not the best optics.

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Which nostr apps have the best name? Damus - yes, I like this play on words Amethyst - nice word g...

Amethyst and Grimoire. I kind of don't like the word "Nostr."

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2026-03-08T11:04:22Z

Monaco reminds me of L.A. A combination of Rodeo Drive and the Sunset Strip and Wilshire Blvd.

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I would never consider creating an account on X or Facebook, or posting anything other than basic resume info on LinkedIn. That leaves Nostr.

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I used Ethereum for my Nostr key rotation / replacement project. (I wonder if I'm the only person who has used Ethereum for anything related to Nostr....

I used Ethereum for my Nostr key rotation / replacement project. (I wonder if I'm the only person who has used Ethereum for anything related to Nostr.) I tried to see how it could be done with Bitcoin, but in the end doing a smart contract just seemed easier. Admittedly I hardly knew anything about blockchains when I got started. Maybe I would have used Bitcoin if I had had more experience. Oh, and actually I'm using a little bit of Bitcoin by way of opentimestamps. I'm happy to continue using Ethereum whenever I need a programmable blockchain. These projects are partly meant as (usable) proof-of-concept, so I don't think too hard about whether or not Ethereum has a future etc.

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Sounds like there is still some uncertainty. In any event, I'll focus on nip-17.

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Thanks - I guess they do work then, and my confusion was just about the different nips. So nip-17 is what I should focus on - I'll take a look and th...

Thanks - I guess they do work then, and my confusion was just about the different nips. So nip-17 is what I should focus on - I'll take a look and think about whether the key replacement scheme can be made to work for that.

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There's always a downside.

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So I think Nostr supports encrypted direct messages, right? Or not really? Or there are different competing protocols, and some of them work, and oth...

So I think Nostr supports encrypted direct messages, right? Or not really? Or there are different competing protocols, and some of them work, and others don't? Or none of them work? #asknostr

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I should talk to the next creative writing group I'll encounter about Nostr, see if they're interested. What I had in mind, though, was that Nostr de...

I should talk to the next creative writing group I'll encounter about Nostr, see if they're interested. What I had in mind, though, was that Nostr developers should maybe consider forming similar groups, i.e. where they periodically introduce their projects to one another and then must comment on each other's creations. The idea is to foster more in-depth discussion of what's being built, which doesn't always happen naturally.

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It's interesting that your example is a "list of local chiropractors." That feels a bit like asking a stranger on the street for the best way to the t...

It's interesting that your example is a "list of local chiropractors." That feels a bit like asking a stranger on the street for the best way to the train station, or maybe for a good restaurant within walking distance. In that sort of situation, I'd usually think that the stranger will make a good-faith effort to provide useful advice. And the trustworthiness of the advice in that situation doesn't really seem to depend on whether I also know that the stranger is , say, a friend of a friend of a friend of mine. I mean even if we don't have common friends at all, I'd trust the stranger just as much. Or take something like a book recommendation. If I've been interacting with someone online for a while and have an idea of their opinions and sensibilities, I may on that basis be willing to buy a book based on their recommendation. But then suppose that it's not someone with whom I've interacted directly, but rather an online friend of an online friend. It seems to me that, without knowing more about them, I won't be any more likely to act on their book recommendation because we happen to have a common friend. In other words, I don't really think that the friends of my friends have better taste in books than any other random person. I guess it's not clear to me that a friend-of-friend concept plays a huge role in my making decisions about who to trust, or whose content I want to see. It's possible that there will be greater alignment between me and those friends-of-friends along, say, "ideological" or "cultural" lines. But that doesn't really translate into my wanting to see their content - in fact, I may prefer to see content produced by people who do not align with me in these respects. Just some thoughts.

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I actually think it works much better than the picture would suggest.

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Hope this episode helped to explain the WoT concept, it’s definitely legit

I think listening to the episode made me more sceptical of WoT. When discussing what problem would be solved by WoT, he (I forget which one is which)...

I think listening to the episode made me more sceptical of WoT. When discussing what problem would be solved by WoT, he (I forget which one is which) says around 1:24:20 "... it would solve the problem of like what to pay attention to because it would automatically rank all the good stuff from your communities and down-rank all the bad stuff ..." This sounds at the same time a bit naive and also a bit Orwellian. I mean "what to pay attention to" and distinguishing "good stuff" from "bad stuff" sound like major life questions, the sort of thing one might want to spend a few years studying philosophy, literature or science for, or maybe go travelling the world or something. I can see how one might be attracted to the idea to get these questions resolved by an algorithm, but the project seems a bit chimerical. In fairness, he might have just meant something much more mundane, like filtering out completely obvious spam, but I was struck by the way he put it.

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2026-03-05T17:26:55Z

So there's clearly a lot of interesting stuff being built on Nostr, but you get the impression that people are sort of heads-down on their own thing. ...

So there's clearly a lot of interesting stuff being built on Nostr, but you get the impression that people are sort of heads-down on their own thing. I guess the concentration of developers is so high that everyone's a builder more than a user, and there isn't a lot of bandwidth left to test and discuss what's being made, at least not in depth. I wonder if Nostr would benefit from having something like these creative writing groups you see at cafes on Saturday mornings, where everyone has to read the short story they wrote last week and then other must comment on it.

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2026-03-05T16:52:22Z

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"What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move ...

"What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off.”

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Buonanotte

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That's right, to say goodbye when parting. The English "Good day" can be used like that. But there's no "Good day" greeting that can be used when one ...

That's right, to say goodbye when parting. The English "Good day" can be used like that. But there's no "Good day" greeting that can be used when one meets someone.

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Maybe it's odd in the way in which "Guten Nachmittag" sounds a bit off in German. There doesn't seem to be anything like "Guten Tag" or "こんにちは" in It...

Maybe it's odd in the way in which "Guten Nachmittag" sounds a bit off in German. There doesn't seem to be anything like "Guten Tag" or "こんにちは" in Italian. I guess English doesn't have a "Good day" either, but there is a perfectly usable "Good afternoon" which, together with "Good morning" and "Good evening" covers everything. Huh.

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Cute.

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But I'm told that"buon pomeriggio" isn't really used and sounds a bit odd. Or not?

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2026-03-03T21:54:31Z

Figuring out the right time of day to transition from "bongiorno" to "buonasera" is tricky. I always seem to walk into a store when it's like 2:53 pm ...

Figuring out the right time of day to transition from "bongiorno" to "buonasera" is tricky. I always seem to walk into a store when it's like 2:53 pm - what do I say?

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2026-03-03T21:37:56Z

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I'll let you all know if I discover a proper cup of coffee in this country. Plus electrical outlets.

Upcycle Bike Cafe Milano. This takes care of the coffee, less so for the electrical outlets.

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2026-03-02T15:08:00Z

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I always just order a bottle of sparkling water, to go along with my coffee. 😂🤷🏻‍♀️ I also don't kn...

I'll let you all know if I discover a proper cup of coffee in this country. Plus electrical outlets.

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May as well start collecting.

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Actually with my Inkan experiment nobody can control who registers, so there's no gate where spammers can be"manually" filtered out. But it's still a...

Actually with my Inkan experiment nobody can control who registers, so there's no gate where spammers can be"manually" filtered out. But it's still a way of whittling down the number of identities that one might want to treat as at least potentially legitimate. Of course, as with all such mechanisms, it can also work against high-quality accounts that cannot or do not want to pay. In the end it's just another signal that one may want to use, or not. But more importantly to my mind, if people are able to establish long-term online identities, i.e. identities that they can be reasonably confident they can keep for say 30 years without the keys that secure the identity being compromised, they can then invest and build a more serious and less ephemeral online presence. The hope is that people will then have more time and higher-quality material to work with when getting to know one another online. That may then lead to more organic growth of online reputations, with lesser need to use technical means to filter out spam.

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I think there is a definition of "asset" as something that has an "expectation of future [economic] benefit" associated with it. I kind of like this d...

I think there is a definition of "asset" as something that has an "expectation of future [economic] benefit" associated with it. I kind of like this definition. Applying it to Bitcoin, the *current* price in fiat isn't really relevant to whether its "worth owning," but the *future* price in fiat should be considered. For example, if the current price is low and the future price will be high, it's definitely worth owning. There's a different question as to whether "price in fiat" is the most important metric here, if fiat itself is expected to lose value in the future. It may be better to use price in in terms of a bundle of goods, or CPI, or price in terms of real estate, forest land, etc.

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