Everything collapses to 32 bytes

Everything Collapses to 32 Bytes

How Objects, Controllers, and Events form a minimal digital fabric

Schrödinger’s Strait.

A few pics from my bike ride #bikestr

Rail bridge crossing.

The trails are still underwater.

Nice pic from this morning

npubs act in their own self-interest

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Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various enterta...

'Attacks' rhymes with 'A tax'

According to NIP-01, events of kind 45-999 are not classified. How are they handled by relays - as regular events? #asknostr

Little do they know.... @ODELL

The protocol is the system.

Step back from the network. Read a book.

#bikestr

“Pirated States of America”

Proposed new #superpower for the nostr protocol - using the “o” tag to store the sha256 digest of any original document/byte array (pdf, jpg, bin, etc). That means the digest is automatically indexed searchable as the “#o” tag in a filter. I’ve tested it. It works. I am planning to use this for transferable title documents, such as electronic bills of lading (printed as a PDFs). This approach also releases me from those janky proprietary certificate authority schemes, like Adobe Acrobat that try to trick you into a subscription service when all you want to do is issue and validate the authenticity of a f***ing pdf, without using some paid certificate authority racket.

#Nostr is the protocol that keeps on giving. Over the weekend, I experimented with publishing events with an “o” tag having the sha256 digest of an original document (pdf, jpg, etc). Then using a separate script to calculate the digest of a selected document to see if there is a corresponding event. It worked, because according to NIP-01, single letter tags are indexed, so I could filter for the event. This is a big deal because now I have the basis to build an electronic transferable record (ETR) system that does not require any “blockchain”. This can be used to manage title documents such as a bills of lading. Even, better, since payments is already tightly integrated (nip57, lud16) adding payments for title transfer will be a breeze! Onward!

Peer to Peer really means Pay to Permit.