@NickSzabo4 agree ssh hence proposed bitcoin trust anchor, ssh good analogy: host/user fingerprint - rest is up to you. made same analogy.
SSH succeeded because it removed bureaucracy: users not developers know who they trust, with what, and why: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-protocol-success-04#appendix-A.3 …
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suppose it should be said, the problem with payment protocol to obtain one-use bitcoin addr is it has to have online keys & is more complex.
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@adam3us Complexity is all the more reason to leave up to the users. You and I and any other designer don't know what we're doing.
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@NickSzabo4 Does not explain why TLS with certificate authorities succeeded. -
"how could Netscape have possibly avoided x.509?" http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000609.html … tl;dr institutional forces won the day
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@NickSzabo4 Trust travels well on social networks and can augment security.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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