Alex Gleason
· 3w
I did a big writeup chronicling onchain zaps and put many of my thoughts together in one place.
Onchain Zaps in Ditto: Bitcoin Tipping Without Lightning
https://soapbox.pub/blog/onchain-zaps-in-ditt...
This is false:
"Then, Tim Bouma made a major breakthrough."
There's an obvious flaw (with, I think, an easy fix) in Tim's proposal. You know this already. It will allow anybody who offers SP-scanning services the ability to steal the funds and the nsec and the identity
Everyone who really understands SP knows how to derive an SP from a Nostr key pair (and how to do it in a way that's safer than Tim's). Those experts don't need Tim's sloppy proposal and sloppy code. It didn't add anything to the discussion
The problem with you and Tim isn't that you make mistakes. We all do, and I've made cryptographic mistakes. It's that you double down after your mistakes are pointed out. Tim (and you) could have humbly said "I withdraw my original proposal, as it's crap, and I'd like to learn how to fix it". Many of us would have loved to help