straycat on Nostr: I’m not saying that isn’t your goal. I am saying, however, that when the client ...

I’m not saying that isn’t your goal. I am saying, however, that when the client selects one or more WoT service providers for its users, that introduces a fatal flaw that we need to fix before it actually kills us, and NIP-85 fixes it.

When I first learned about bitcoin, I thought there’s no way we can fit every transaction for billions of people onto a single ledger. Turns out you can. It’s a challenge and we have to figure out how to deal with it, but it’s not a fatal flaw.

If I don’t have room on my personal NIP-85 relay for 8 billion kind 30382 events, then I won’t store that many. Only the people I want to keep track of. I can keep track of reputation in my head but my head is limited by Dunbar’s number, about 150 people. If I’m willing to fill my personal NIP-85 relay with a million Trusted Assertions, maybe 1 GB of data, then I’ve boosted my personal Dunbar’s number from 150 to a million. I’d call that a good start.