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Melvin Carvalho · 84w
Being there from the start, I can say it wasn't fiatjaf; he was involved with Ethereum, Ripple, Stellar, and more recently Bitcoin. You might remember the drivechain debacle—he pushed for a controve...
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Thanks for contributing this history.

I didn’t realize fiatjaf was so liberal with his cryptocurrency endeavors :)

I agree Jack brought a lot of social consensus to galvanize early visibility (and contributed a lot of funding over time)!

I’ve heard the Taproot/identity point mentioned before, but I don’t know much about the relationship. Can you tell more about this? Are npubs/nsec specs inherited from something in Taproot?
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Melvin Carvalho · 84w
Yes, they are exactly the same idenity except nostr starts "npub" and taproot starts "bc". Both use schnorr sigs. So that means that all nostr accounts are all wallets, and all taproot accounts can participate in nostr social and apps. Nostr has a distributed ledger with best in class consensus v...
Melvin Carvalho · 84w
Concrete example: Your npub: npub1kuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qj9kdj8 Your testnet address: tb1pkuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qxdufq2 Notice they are almost identical characters. So I just sent you 1 million testnet sats here: https://mempool.space/...