Oddbean

the reds are so obstructed in their ability to think by this idea that any politician is not a tyrant hello! biden was a tyrant trump was and will be a tyrant politicians = tyrants they are empowered most fundamentally by byzantine systems of delegation of a democratic vote that does not place any stake upon the decisions assented to by the voters, or by their delegates (representatives), and these systems have been fundamentally coopted by media corporations with their government licenses and funded by the banks whose most fundamental power - to pick and choose economic winners, and thus punish those who oppose their interests... what they do understand, however, is that inventing technology is a key tool to breaking the injustice of an establishment that's why i'm here doing things on Nostr and why for my paid gig i work on federated database systems (aka shitcoin blockchains)

I love this article! Thanks to Bitcoin, anyone can be a Cobrador without asking for permission. We can ignore the fiat moats around the existing TollGates and just run our own TollGates. Lets go! https://npub1suw0zfxerywd4zku4gjsjde22zhzye9dl2hsll6s3z2qap75p78s66lkhp.nsite.orangesync.tech/

I don't worry about DNS because we have npubs now. However, I do worry about IP addresses - perhaps because I don't understand IPV6 well enough. My understanding is that IPV6 comes with more addresses, so individual users can have more "public" authority in their local networks. However, my understanding is that IANA is still the top authority responsible for allocating resources in the internet. Am I missing something?

Most people are bad at memorizing npubs or IP addresses. Therefore most people tend to depend on naming systems like DNS. Yeah, with IPv6 you can have thousands or millions of addresses, just for you. You can have a public IP for every service, for every tweet, or whatever. So IANA cannot hide behind the narrative of the scarcity of IP addresses, as they do right now. And ISP's don't even give you a public IP anymore, you just get a NATted address in many countries. That's one of the reasons why DHT's don't work in internet scale, because holepunching is a pain in the ass. Even if they give you a public dynamic IP, you can't use it to run a service without a dyndns because it's dynamic. And peer to peer stuff depends on being able to reliably find each other.

it's a conspiracy but eventually there will be a route out i think technologies like tor and wireguard and others point the way... even nostr is a countermeasure against this constraint by introducing a universal middleman who can pass and cache messages

Have a look at handshake protocol. There's no authority there. And it's quite an original approach. Petname systems are fine, they have their use, but when you want to make a billboard with your name, it's better to have a global unique resolution to that name, because you don't have control over everyone's web of trust. For someone with infinite fiat resources it's easy to register that name in thousands of other webs of trust, so you will be impersonated easily. And resolving a naming conflict - if both candidates want that name - inevitably comes with a need for authority (community leader) who decides who will get the name. But I'd be happy to hear what @Stuart Bowman thinks of it.

Interesting, we needed you here for the conversation. I guess the naming conflict is still an issue if we want to reach people outside of our echo chamber. Do you mean handshakes with a DHCP server? https://medium.com/@sajerestan/demystifying-the-dhcp-four-way-handshake-how-your-devices-connect-to-the-internet-a52f0c553a53 I also found some handshake stuff related to TCP: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/tcp-3-way-handshake-process/

nostr:nprofile1qqs07f7srjc72ma4skqrqmrm5a4mqdalyyw9k4eu2mjwwr9gtp644uqd4h7h8 do you remember what was on the corners of the unsolvable triangle? Perhaps we can only get all three corners under the assumption that users only care about content that is within their web of trust...

Thanks for sharing this. I need to re-read it more carefully, but my gut feeling says that proof of work can be used to distribute any scarce resource in a decentralized manner - namespace, address space, blockspace etc.. I've been thinking of using a combination of Bitcoin payment and barter (useful hashrate) for distributing IP addresses...