Privacy is but an element to this, probably prioritized by the bias of people working on this; fundamentally its these math tricks that allow to structure the digital realm.
And perhaps this transition from analoge to digital is far more envolved, and required therefor more generational iteration that might we can imagine.
We have used signatures, seals and keys of all kinds of all kinds throughout history and much of the world order is constructed out of these things; political, judicial, commercial, you name it, its all text with signatures at the bottom.
Incremental digitization of elements is what has been happening over time, for example whatever that signing of PDF documents with the silly handwriting font is supposed to be.
But what we are doing with Bitcoin, and Nostr, is something different; we dont digitize, we start out with the inherrently digital; and as a result we have to rebuild all these institutions from the ground up. The whole Bitcoin ETF in this regard is hillarious for example.
Why has this not happened before? Because its a bootstrapping problem, and Bitcoin is the thing that not just solved that problem for itself, but for cryptography as a whole
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