dr.orlovsky on Nostr: TL;DR: 1. Choice of crypto: nostr picked “bitcoin crypto starter pack”. But what ...
TL;DR:
1. Choice of crypto: nostr picked “bitcoin crypto starter pack”. But what is good for blockchain may be bad for network: it is ultra-slow and non-standard in digital identity world (incompatible with PGP/SSH)
2. Choice of javascript-style (no data typing): vectors for DoS attacks, slow speed, low extensibility
3. No end-to-end encryption
Overall: very vulnerable to DoS, incompatible with other decentralized identity schemata, will have scalability problems.
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2023-04-15 13:46:55Event JSON
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