Laan Tungir on Nostr: This isn't true. Why? Because AI's are software, and software can't hold private ...

This isn't true.



Why? Because AI's are software, and software can't hold private keys.

Think about it. Imagine you are a software program, and you want to hold bitcoin. What are you going to do with your private key, such that the person who is running the computer you are on can't get it?

You could encrypt your private key, but then what are you going to do with the key to that encryption? Encrypting the key leads you down an infinite regress that gets you nowhere, because ultimately you have to have at least one final key that isn't encrypted.

There is a deep principle involved here, and that is: to utilize encryption YOU MUST BE ABLE TO PHYSICALLY SECURE YOUR PRIVATE KEY.

You have to place your key somewhere where no other entity can physically access it, either because it is hidden, or because it is physically impossible to access.

To have and hold #bitcoin or a #nostr account, you have to be a computer or even better a robot/human. You can't simply be software.

So in the article, the AI's don't hold the crypto. Whomever holds the computer that the AI's are running on, holds the crypto.

Cryptographic keys are philosophically very deep. There is a lot there to explore, in terms of identity, and what it means to be human.