Actually that's not a prepositional phrase at all. More like an appositive adjective.

That seems right, a prepositional phrase at the front can get a comma, and sometimes also one in the middle.

It is a tale
told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing.

In addition to human identity, I'm also building this for durable agent identity (e.g. for agents that can contract, enter into economic relations etc.) 👇

The cat sat on the mat after the party.

The cat sat on the mat, after the party.

I'd say there's a profound difference in meaning.

"after it ate" seems more like a subordinate clause. 🤨

Yes, please feel free to create a toy identity on the homepage in the meantime. There is an option at the end of the wizard (and also separately on the homepage) to send me the identity creation file, and I can go ahead and record it on-chain and cover the $0.17 or whatever in gas fees.

to avoid the sad conclusion, maybe just start using the PKI provided by inkan to see what feels like in practice, and it can then be improved bit by bit based on feedback

In Ethereum the validators' anonymity may not be as much of a problem since we are not being asked to trust the validators. You can see what they deposited and the deposit is destructible, so there is a penalty for provable misbehavior. The problem with the anonymity of the pegnoatires, as far as I understand, is that they are supposed to be respected companies, i.e. we are to trust their reputation. I guess if they are phasing out the federation model, this may be getting fixed.

Now as for always having a "confirmed history," my understanding is that this "confirmed history" is precisely the thing that would get revised during a reorg. And if the chain is halted and later resumed, it seems that the community in that situation has to pick a branch, if I understand it correctly, so maybe not so different from Ethereum?

Since inkan is using blockchains I guess I'm on the hook for making the right choices on this stuff going forward.

Before prepositional phrases? Like

"The cat sat, on the mat."

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Thanks, frostr looks like the right thing. Apparently they haven't yet implemented NIP-46, but they do have NIP-7. There also seems to be some early stage NIP-55, igloo-android apparently can hold a shard and add its partial signautre, get NIP-55 requests, send signing requests to nodes, and return the signed event. That's very close to what I was asking about, now I just have to actually try it.

Also talked to my LLM, and I think the issue with rootstock "confirmations" is that they consist of merge-mined work which is produced by bitcoin miners at zero marginal cost. So there is little that bitcoin miners would lose if they attacked rootstock. And the preventive measures you mention seem to be about detection and halting the chain, but that would give attackers the ability to, well, halt the chain, at no marginal cost to them. And then there would have to be social recovery.

For inkan, the worst thing that could happen is not for RBTC to become unpegged from BTC. It's rather that rootstock gets reorganized, which could rewrite the delegation / revocation history, which would be catastrophic for inkan identities. The integrity of the history is precisely what inkan depends on.

This is forcing me to learn about things like side chains and pegs. So from talking with an LLM, it seems like the custodial problem with rootstock is "pegging out," i.e. releasing escrowed BTC when RBTC is getting redeemed. Bitcoin cannot know mechanically when RBTC gets redeemed, so there has to be a federation of entities that are trusted to correctly operate PowHSMs which co-sign the bitcoin transactions that release escrowed BTC. And these are held out to be "respected companies" but their "identities are not public," which raises the question what basis there is for the respect. And then there is still the other issue, i.e. that it's not clear what exactly would stop bitcoin miners from reorging rootstock. The miners get paid in BTC no matter what happens to rootstock, so beyond the small fee incentive they get for participating there doesn't seem to be anything they'd lose by attacking rootstock. At least at first glance, it doesn't necessarily seem more robust than Ethereum.