Looking at this definition, how is it any different than nip25 reactions? You could just interpret ✅☑️✔️💯 as positive attestations and ✖️❌❎⛔🚫 as negative ones.
I am think about this in terms of two use cases:
Attesting that a location accepts bitcoin
AND
An application has a reproducible build.
So I guess what you're saying is that there should be a separate kind(s) for assertions or declarations, which would then be attested to separately? In the case of a location accepting bitcoin, the initial assertion could be represented by a bitcoin badge and the asserts could be like a number the same way notifications on a phone work, but it could be negative if more people asset that something is false than true.
The only issue I guess I have is what if multiple people make the same declaration? Let's say multiple people create workflows to check the reproducibility of some application. Then wouldnt the client have to basically determine which one to attach the attestations to? Because you wouldn't just want to force the attestations just to go to whichever assertion is first, because it means different things for the app owner to declare that their build is reproducible vs another entity vs some random not technical person or bot. This is really only relevant to the assertion discussion because assertions only apply to other events.
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Yeah, we could. We actually started there but concluded we needed something less open to interpretation, particularly as reactions are used for all sorts.
An Attestation should carry much more weight - like a notorisation.
Users and clients would need to weigh Attestations in accordance to their social graph and preferences using WoT. e.g. people may highly weight Proof of Place Attestations from BTC Map, but not music recommendations.
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Users and clients would need to weigh Attestations in accordance to their social graph and preferences using WoT. e.g. people may highly weight Proof of Place Attestations from BTC Map, but not music recommendations.
More context here:

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Yeah, we could. We actually started there but concluded we needed something less open to interpretation, particularly as reactions are used for all sorts.
An Attestation should carry much more weight - like a notorisation.
Users and clients would need to weigh Attestations in accordance to their social graph and preferences using WoT. e.g. people may highly weight Proof of Place Attestations from BTC Map, but not music recommendations.
More context here:
And here:
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Users and clients would need to weigh Attestations in accordance to their social graph and preferences using WoT. e.g. people may highly weight Proof of Place Attestations from BTC Map, but not music recommendations.
More context here:

Habla
Cryptography, the Commons and Proof of Place - Nathan Day
As we navigate the frontier of cryptographic ownership and decentralised data, it’s up to us to find the balance between preserving the Open Data...
Google Docs
d/h/d/ BTC Prague 2025
The Nuts are in the Mail Nathan Day BTC Map and Other Stuff
Yeah, we could. We actually started there but concluded we needed something less open to interpretation, particularly as reactions are used for all sorts.
An Attestation should carry much more weight - like a notorisation.
Users and clients would need to weigh Attestations in accordance to their social graph and preferences using WoT. e.g. people may highly weight Proof of Place Attestations from BTC Map, but not music recommendations.
More context here:
And here:

View quoted note →
Users and clients would need to weigh Attestations in accordance to their social graph and preferences using WoT. e.g. people may highly weight Proof of Place Attestations from BTC Map, but not music recommendations.
More context here:

Habla
Cryptography, the Commons and Proof of Place - Nathan Day
As we navigate the frontier of cryptographic ownership and decentralised data, it’s up to us to find the balance between preserving the Open Data...
Google Docs
d/h/d/ BTC Prague 2025
The Nuts are in the Mail Nathan Day BTC Map and Other Stuff