Building Nostr by Information Wants to Be Free "Digital signatures are essential to making Nostr work. The goal of Nostr is to break down walled gardens by subverting one of their key value propositions: content authentication. Or, in other words, the ability to know that a particular person said a particular thing. This is a challenge in the digital world because information can be copied or fabricated at will. Simply saying that someone authored a particular piece of content doesn't make it so. When you go to Twitter and you load up a tweet, you only know that tweet is real because you trust Twitter. And if someone takes a screenshot of that or copies the text and emails it to you, then you have even less assurance that what's been presented to you is authentic. What this means is that data that is not cryptographically signed is tightly coupled to custody. The only person who can reliably attest to the authenticity of a given piece of information is the person who can trace its provenance from the author, through storage, and to your device. This is very convenient for social media platforms — reliance on unsigned data means that they are needed. There has to be a single trustworthy custodian in order for unsigned data to work. The same is true of search results on Google; you don't know that search results are any good unless Google says they are. What signed data gives us is the ability to know that something is true without having to trust anyone. If I create a note on Nostr and use my private key to sign it, anyone can verify the signature using the hash of the event and my public key (which is attached to the event). This lets them know that the event was created by the person who has access to my private key, i.e., me." Full pdf: https://github.com/coracle-social/building-nostr/releases/download/v1.0.1/building-nostr.pdf #grownostr

https://tidal.com/browse/track/342261999

- I bought my entry into both of these professional pool tournaments and ordered my new cue to begin practice this weekend. This is where I approach my lifelong passions more wisely than I once would have, and explore my true potential.

* Officially Unofficial * promo art. You can just promo things. Disclaimer: Oh did you think i thought this was how someone else saw it from somewhere else? No, this is just how i see it from here (i'm not over there, i'm here). #tunestr #grownostr #music

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Tatum Turn Up: interviewed me day 2 of the #WHATFest #music festival: for Tunestr.io, who streamed the event: Watch the interview: https://www.johnbnevin.com/music/tunestr-io-interview-at-what-fest/ See the full event: Day 1 https://tunestr.io/naddr1qq9rzde4xv6rswpsxycqzrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7q3qwhat2x9ugxe3a28tuk783335lghh60e89kgye09yxr30s3qnpn2qxpqqqpmxwevyk8c Day 2 https://tunestr.io/naddr1qq9rzde4xv6n2df4xg6qz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qgs8t744rz7yrvc74r47t0rccc605tma8unjmyzvhjjrpchcgsfse4qrqsqqqan8f7g3uu #grownostr

https://www.johnbnevin.com/music/tunestr-io-interview-at-what-fest/

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