MyOpinion 13 points 3 years ago

Take blockchain and flush it down where it belongs.

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UrbenLegend 8 points 3 years ago

The tech is fine and actually pretty exciting. The shit coins need to go. I think we should separate the two concepts IMHO.

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mremugles 2 points 3 years ago

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TheOneCurly 9 points 3 years ago

IMO what you're really describing is a cryptographically secure way to signify that I am the person you think I am. Some sort of PGP implementation within user profiles would be really interesting. Posts and comments could be signed by a key. Then, assuming you trust my home instance because of https certificates, your client could look up my PGP key directly from my profile and verify the signature to confirm that a rogue instance hadn't impersonated me.

It's not blockchain but I actually think that would be a really cool feature.

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acchariya 2 points 3 years ago

You could create an ED25519 keypair, then with each post, produce a sha256 hash of the post, create a signature of the hash using your private signing key, then include the signature with the post. Anyone could easily verify the signature with the verify key. You could add the verify key to a personal site or something.

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Sha256:

88e4511a4d01cb0eff1fada8cf4db999728da346e058f917ffd166bca705557b

Signature:

b8cdd87533f7f2a79ac4869dab9e3b4d929b72293e123336684b7bb8bb5967e4d4aaac8f3f22c8bfe108acbcdf0d60135624aae6c67cc696fac68f41d4e2e50d

See profile bio for verify key

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KrombopulosMikl 7 points 3 years ago

Sorry but I still see blockchain as a solution in search of a problem

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cosmic_slate 2 points 3 years ago

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dukethorion 2 points 3 years ago

Decentralization is the opposite of a Univeral ID.

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ethLabsAlpha 5 points 3 years ago

True, and yet a blockchain has the seemingly paradoxical nature of being decentralized as well as universal (presuming everyone uses the same blockchain of course). But it's still decentralized in that no one company or entity controls all of it.

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ThousandthStar 2 points 3 years ago

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cwagner 2 points 3 years ago

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nintendiator 2 points 3 years ago

blockchain

Good try, Elon.

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melmc 1 point 3 years ago

Have you looked at Nostr? It is based on public and private key pairs used for encryption. The public key serves as your ID. The UI is similar to Twitter and it allows for Lightning payments which are referred to as Zaps, i.e if you like the post, you can send the poster Satoshis. It also allows for DMs. Some clients provide a group chat feature.

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ThousandthStar 2 points 3 years ago

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moonsnotreal 1 point 3 years ago

Why would you ever want to connect your wallet to social media. It will just fill the fediverse with scams.

Do you want me to easily be able to dox you because of an id connected to your account? No?

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ThousandthStar 1 point 3 years ago

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