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10 sats \ 25 comments \ @anon 9h bitcoin

Spaces https://spacesprotocol.org/ is a naming protocol that leverages the existing infrastructure and security of Bitcoin without requiring a new blockchain or any modifications to Bitcoin itself.

“Spaces” serve as community identifiers that are distributed through an auction process built using existing Bitcoin scripting capabilities. Proceeds generated through auctions are irrevocably burned.

Within each Space, users can create “Subspaces,” which serve as trustless individual identities, operating with a high degree of autonomy primarily off-chain but can also submit transactions directly on-chain. Spaces is designed to be verifiable by end-users in a trustless manner without requiring a full node. This is achieved through a stateless zero-knowledge light client built using RISC0 zkVM.

The protocol essentially acts as a scalable & trustless ~250KB Bitcoin certificate authority.

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0 sats \ 20 replies \ @DarthCoin 7h

crap

0 sats \ 19 replies \ @anon 6h

Spaces Protocol fixes all this. Human readable public key, centralized nip-05 address, centralized relay addresses.

npub, .news, .io, .lol

0 sats \ 18 replies \ @DarthCoin 6h

useless crap

0 sats \ 17 replies \ @anon 6h

At the very least, you've heard about spaces protocol and are engaging in posts about it. We usually dismiss new ideas at first before learning about them. Most of us did the same with bitcoin.

We can all agree that money should not be centralized.

I'll leave you with this question to ponder.

Why should online usernames be centralized?

0 sats \ 16 replies \ @DarthCoin 6h

Anything online must be a pseudonym. So for a nym I really do not need any blockchain (even bitcoin blockchain). The whole idea to put real identity on a blockchain is stupid. Anything online is PUBLIC. That means you should use ONLY nyms. Anything offline is PRIVATE. Learn to make the difference between private and public: https://livingintheprivate.blogspot.com/

0 sats \ 15 replies \ @anon 5h

Then you're constantly living under someone else's control when you're online. Why? Why let icann control everything with dns? Why let https certificate authorities sign for all your transactions?

Just because you don't care, don't see value? That's like the person who says, 'why do we need bitcoin? The usd in my bank account works just fine.'

I understand the public, private argument and I agree.

Spaces can be both public and private, they can be throw away names, just like bitcoin addresses. Use it once, then never again. The choice is the users, spaces scales to billions.

You can have a name, darthcoin tied to a public nostr npub. You already tie your identity to a public nostr npub. Spaces protocol only makes it human readable.

We know naming is valuable, we do it with everything. Domains, usernames, even bitcoin private keys, we created a naming convention for seed words.

Naming is about converting hard to remember/read data into human readable format. Names are digital assets and should be decentralized, there's no need for 3rd party control.

21 sats \ 7 replies \ @SimpleStacker 5h

Why use Bitcoin for decentralized namespace? Why not have another project? Bitcoin is money, why do people keep trying to use it for other things?

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 5h

Why not have another project?

It was one, namecoin NMC, that was mined together with BTC back in early years. But was abandoned/hacked/forgotten. It was a really good intention but failed. Was working pretty good for .btc domains, but unfortunately now is a garbage.

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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @anon 5h

Bitcoin is the most secure Proof-of-Work blockchain in the world.

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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @DarthCoin 5h

Bitcoin is NOT for a real identity... Bitcoin is just P2P money. That's it. Do not try to put everything under Bitcoin, is really dumb.

Why let icann control everything with dns?

Even if you use nostr or bitcoin for a real identity verification, you still use ICANN. Every fucking IP from your ISP is controlled. So until we will have a truly decentralized internet, consider everything online to be compromised.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @anon 5h

Now we're getting somewhere!

Spaces Protocol is the next step to a decentralized internet, enabled by bitcoin.

It's a crazy fucking idea!

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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @joyfam 6h

I don't want a Bitcoin identity, staying anonymous is my identity

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @anon 6h

You're posting under a username joyfam. If you wanted to stay anon you'd be posting under anon. We all use usernames online, that's our identity. It doesn't have to be tied to our real world ID. It can be, but it doesn't have to be. That's the cool thing about spaces.

Spaces Protocol is a naming protocol for p2p apps like bitcoin, nostr, etc, it's not kyc. It's a human readable name that can map to a nostr npub, bitcoin public key, etc.

A lot of people don't realize the centralization of icann, dns and the security issue with https where someone else is signing on your behalf. Spaces protocol has the potential to replace all of that.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Fenix 6h

Public and private are different things when you want to keep your identity a secret and not when you are posting anonymously in a public space; the difference is in not being tracked, not in the level of anonymity.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 5h

I understand that.

The problem is the digital 'public space' is controlled by a centralized 3rd party.

This is one of the things spaces protocol seeks to solve. You can remain private with spaces.