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Nathan Day | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +9 
 Self-sovereign digital identity is huge.

Arguably bigger than self-sovereign digital money.

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Tim Bouma | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It’s the combination of the identity and payment - that’s the big innovation. A self-generated npub can be your identity AND your payment address. IP and DNS can be leveraged to make things easier, but a npub is not dependent on DNS/IP.
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Tim Bouma | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 BTW, thanks for btcmap.org - it was indispensable for me in #Madeira.
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Nathan Day | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 🤜🤛
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Markush | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Ooff... Self sovereign digital identity is huge in the cyberspace.

Self sovereign digital money is huge both in cyberspace and meatspace.

I wouldn't claim one is more important than the other, taking the violence monopoly out of the hands of a few seems *at least* as important or even more than not allowing them to define your "digital identity".

While they are powerfully linked in the cyberspace, the money doesn't need identity in meatspace.

Nostr is doing extremely good for the cyberspace, but not everyone wants to be here, and that's totally fair.

Meatspace should keep being the most important space and improvements that make life here better are more important than the ones that make it better in the cyberspace imho.