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1. Thomas Tuegel (ttuegel@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2017 20:20:09 UTC Thomas Tuegel

   • Monoid Mary

   @argumatronic One way to publish a canonical, authoritative identity database without centralization would be:

   [Pause for breath]

   A blockchain-distributed, Webfinger-accessible public key database.

   Like Keybase, but more buzzwordy.

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   • Chris Martin (chrismartin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2017 20:21:56 UTC Chris Martin

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     • Monoid Mary

     @ttuegel @argumatronic

     Ah hem.

     YOU DON'T NEED A BLOCKCHAIN FOR THIS

     :)

     There's no double-spend problem, there's no censorship problem, you just need a normal-ass crypto key/signature list people can copy around.

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2017 21:07:36 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Monoid Mary
     • Chris Martin
     @chrismartin @argumatronic @ttuegel
     
     Check out https://hubzilla.org/help/about/about_hubzilla and its nomadic identity for an elegant solution to this.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2017 21:11:10 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Hallå Kitteh
     • Monoid Mary
     • Chris Martin
     @argumatronic @chrismartin @ttuegel If one wants a global, decentralized, unified namespace of human-readable names one does need some form of distributed consensus thing.
     
     #patchwork goes around the problem by ... not doing it. You have a display name that you choose. They can collide and that's fine, and you can choose your own display name for users, if you don't like the name they gave themselves, or if you need to disambiguate names.
   • Chris Martin (chrismartin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2017 21:12:36 UTC Chris Martin

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     • Hallå Kitteh

     @clacke I don't want that at all, I just want to automate the age-old process of telling all your friends "hey, I moved and my new phone number is ..."

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 02-Apr-2017 22:05:24 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Chris Martin
     @chrismartin I agree. Just explaining why some people want a blockchain. It's about closing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle .
   • AlligatorAnonymous (neimzr4luzerz@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2017 00:25:33 UTC AlligatorAnonymous

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     • Hallå Kitteh
     • Chris Martin
     @clacke @chrismartin @argumatronic@mastodon.social @ttuegel this entire thread is cancer: What is GPG/PKI? What is Cryptographic signing? What's public listing/servers? What's a News Group? What's Classified ads? What's the twenty first century?
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2017 06:36:24 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • AlligatorAnonymous
     • Chris Martin
     @neimzr4luzerz @chrismartin @ttuegel What are you?