Oddbean new post about login | logout Very keen to check out #pubky this weekend.. I've no idea 20 million nodes were actually floating around! Are they in direct oposition to ICANN and are they part of OpenNIC? I know someone approached a group of nostriches recently about securing and using the .nostr tld potentially with opennic. I've felt for a while that DNS servers maybe tied to nostr relays could be a foothold into a more decentralized and freedom of speech. I really like the idea of #pubky using the same private key!
There aren't millions of pubky nodes, pubky has no concept of nodes. Pubky uses pkarr.org, which is just a spec for using Mainline (Bittorrent) DHT and especially BEP0044 to publish DNS packets. According to Pkarr, public keys ARE the TLD. Controversial design decision I know, but I stand by it. So no plans to beg ICANN for a TLD. Gnunet begged for .gnu and ICANN refused. We need them even less, given that we use 52 characters TLDs, there will never be a collision with ICANN tlds.
20 million nodes are part of Bittorrent main net, which #pubky reuses More info here. https://pubky.tech
What happened to handshake? Never heard of openNIC 'til now... thx!
Handshake premined shitcoin with airdrop. I avoid.