Now to decide what to do over the Christmas holidays. Take a needed break or double down and build? 🤔
GHOST
ghost@nostrplebs.com
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Operational privacy for real people.
I will be presenting Cold Root Identity (a model to allow us to rotate nostr keys) in about 15 mins on the WoTathan live stream. Come have a listen
NosFabrica - Weaving the Fabric of Trust on Nostr
Wotathon - NosFabrica
November 2025 – April 2026 TOTAL REWARD POOL: 50 MILLION SATOSHIS GOAL: Develop the Web of Trust ecosystem for Nostr, build open source libraries...
Follow up to yesterday's piece. Now that you have clean identities, keep them seperated.
Untraceable Digital Dissident
Username Collision: Why Reusing Work Usernames Destroys Privacy
Using the same username at work and online quietly links your identities. Learn how username collision happens, why it matters, and how to stop acc...
Work IDs accumulate reputation. Personal IDs accumulate history. When they collide, the blast radius expands.
Untraceable Digital Dissident
Username Collision: Why Reusing Work Usernames Destroys Privacy
Using the same username at work and online quietly links your identities. Learn how username collision happens, why it matters, and how to stop acc...
Your real name is a liability. So is that username you have reused since 2008. If you want separation, you need deliberate aliases. Not random burners. Not one off jokes. A system.
Untraceable Digital Dissident
Alias and Username Strategy: Build Decoys and Work IDs That Hold Up
Learn how to build a deliberate alias and username strategy using decoys and work IDs. Create identity separation, reduce correlation, and limit da...
Your real name is a liability. So is that username you have reused since 2008. If you want separation, you need deliberate aliases. Not random burners. Not one off jokes. A system.
Untraceable Digital Dissident
Alias and Username Strategy: Build Decoys and Work IDs That Hold Up
Learn how to build a deliberate alias and username strategy using decoys and work IDs. Create identity separation, reduce correlation, and limit da...
I will be on the WoTathon live stream this Thursday discussing Cold Root Identity. Tune in at 4pm UTC on zap.stream
Your password manager is not just a vault. It’s a forensic record of every version of you that ever touched the internet.
Untraceable Digital Dissident
How to Uncover Hidden Accounts Using Password Manager Data
Your password manager is a forensic record of your entire online life. This guide shows how to export, analyze, and mine vault data to uncover forg...
Porn Hub should have a year end wrapped. Shame you sicko’s
Site Status
The site experienced outages this weekend due to a network level incident at the hosting provider.
The issue is resolved. No data was lost.
Infrastructure changes are underway so that this doesn’t repeat. Stability matters. So does trust.
Thanks for being here.
Back online, finally....
Rotating nostr keys, without any protocol changes.
This is a complete spec with vectors and three matching implementations. If you see a flaw, I want to hear it.
GitHub
GitHub - GHOST-UntraceableDigitalDissident/cold-root-identity: Reference implementation of cold root keys, deterministic epoch keys, and lineage proofs for Nostr.
Reference implementation of cold root keys, deterministic epoch keys, and lineage proofs for Nostr. - GHOST-UntraceableDigitalDissident/cold-root-i...
And it looks like my site is down again. MFer
At 16 we let you watch YouTube and drive a car. At 18 we'll let you fight a war for us.
Cold Root Identity v0.1.0 is live.
Nostr was never meant to run long term identities off a hot private key sitting inside a mobile app.
This repo ships a clean model that fixes it without changing the protocol:
offline root key
-> deterministic epoch keys
-> signed lineage event
-> clients follow rotations safely
All using standard NIP-01 events and ed25519 signatures.
No relay changes. No NIP changes. Just better key hygiene.
Spec, docs, test vectors, and a working Python CLI are here:
If you’re a client dev, this gives you everything you need to support safe identity rotation today.
GitHub
GitHub - GHOST-UntraceableDigitalDissident/cold-root-identity: Reference implementation of cold root keys, deterministic epoch keys, and lineage proofs for Nostr.
Reference implementation of cold root keys, deterministic epoch keys, and lineage proofs for Nostr. - GHOST-UntraceableDigitalDissident/cold-root-i...