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2025-03-13 09:36:49
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2025-03-13 09:36:22
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2025-03-13 09:35:52
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2025-03-13 09:35:49
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2025-03-13 09:35:46
Block 887611
3 - high priority
3 - medium priority
3 - low priority
2 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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2025-03-13 09:35:38
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2025-03-13 09:35:36
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-03-13 09:30:52
Block 887611
2 - high priority
2 - medium priority
2 - low priority
2 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ e7bf8dad:839ef3db
2025-03-13 09:30:52
Block 887611
2 - high priority
2 - medium priority
2 - low priority
2 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ cbab7074:f9f0bd61
2025-03-13 09:30:52
Block 887611
2 - high priority
2 - medium priority
2 - low priority
2 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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2025-03-13 09:30:49
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2025-03-13 09:30:29
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2025-03-13 09:30:29
How Nostr’s Self-Signed Events Became an Unintentional Conceptual Breakthrough
Sometimes, the most profound innovations happen by accident. Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) was originally designed as a simple, censorship-resistant social media protocol. But in its design, it unintentionally solved one of the biggest problems in decentralized systems: how to create a universal, trustless data verification model without centralized issuers.
The key breakthrough? Self-signed events—a concept so simple yet so powerful that it fundamentally changes how identity, reputation, and data integrity work on the internet.
The Problem: Most Digital Identity Models Rely on Trusted Third Parties
In most identity and data verification systems, trust depends on a central authority (a government, a corporation, or a network operator). The Issuer-Holder-Verifier model—which powers systems like Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs)—still assumes that:
1. An issuer must sign and vouch for the authenticity of data.
2. A verifier must check that signature against a trusted registry.
3. The holder is dependent on both parties for validation.
This model, even in its decentralized form, still reinforces external trust dependencies. It ensures that someone, somewhere, still has control over who can issue and revoke credentials.
The Nostr Breakthrough: Self-Signed, Self-Validating Data
Nostr’s design bypassed this entire structure by introducing self-signed events as the core data unit. Instead of requiring an external issuer to vouch for a message’s authenticity, the event itself proves its validity.
Here’s why this is revolutionary:
1. Every Nostr event is cryptographically signed by its creator.
• If the signature matches the public key, the event is valid.
• If anything in the message is altered, the signature breaks.
2. Verification requires no third-party trust.
• Anyone can check a signature without relying on a central authority.
• There’s no need to ask an “issuer” for validation—it’s built into the event itself.
3. No registry, revocation list, or lookup service is needed.
• Unlike the issuer-holder-verifier model, where verifiers check with an issuer, Nostr signatures are final and independent.
• The validity of a message is self-evident and self-contained.
Why This Matters: A New Paradigm for Trustless Systems
What started as a simple social media protocol accidentally created a universal model for decentralized, self-authenticating data. This breakthrough has implications far beyond Nostr:
• Decentralized Identity Without Issuers: Instead of a government or corporation issuing credentials, a person can simply sign messages proving ownership over data.
• Tamper-Proof, Uncensorable Communication: Because each event is self-authenticating, it cannot be modified or faked without breaking the cryptographic proof.
• A New Reputation Model: Trust can emerge organically by recognizing long-term, signed activity—without relying on external authorities to issue credentials.
Conclusion: Nostr as an Accidental Innovation
Nostr wasn’t created to replace digital identity systems or redesign trust models. It was just meant to be a censorship-resistant protocol for social media. But in its simplicity, it stumbled upon a fundamental conceptual breakthrough: self-validating, self-sovereign data.
This shift—from issuer-dependent verification to self-signed, universal proof—could reshape how we think about identity, credentials, and trust in a decentralized world.
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2025-03-13 09:30:26
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2025-03-13 09:30:19
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2025-03-13 09:30:13
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2025-03-13 09:30:08
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