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How is this different than Secure Scuttlebutt? I remember following that for a while. Dominic Tarr invented that. Also Dat / Hypercore from Matthias Mullie, p

• leesalminen 4y ago
  Nostr’s GitHub page discusses the issues with SSB. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#the-problem-with-ssb-secure-scuttlebutt https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#the-problem-with-ssb...
• anarchogeek 4y ago
  Here's a good write-up comparing SSB and Nostr. https://mattlorentz.com/weblog/2023/01/18/nostr-v-ssb.html https://mattlorentz.com/weblog/2023/01/18/nostr-v-ssb.html
  • Zamicol 4y ago
    In my mind, key rotation is foundational, and neither system appears to support that.
    • evbogue 4y ago
      You just generate a new key and link to it with your old key.
      • schoen 4y ago
        Is that process automated / formalized, or manual / informal?
        • evbogue 4y ago
          Nope, you just generate a new keypair and link to it. It rotates, has done so for years.
    • im3w1l 4y ago
      My counterpoint would be that key rotation, while nice isn't essential, and it comes with a lot of complexity and trade offs. In particular, it really steers the design towards integrating with a blockchain which many people have understandable reservations against.
    • nunobrito 4y ago
      Majority of users come from the crypto world, this hasn't been much of a priority. If you lose your keys, that is your problem. Same thing for any other crypto wallet worthy of that name.
• evbogue 4y ago
  After using Nostr a bit, I don't think there's a huge difference between SSB and it except that Nostr has no blob sync and they abandoned append-only logs and use different signing key cryptography. Scuttlebutt just suffers from an inaccessible implementation at the moment, but there is a team coming together to make a working implementation again.