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- "The mother of all breaches": 26B records found online
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Identity management solution for Ethereum: Ideas/Suggestions?
- For completeness and good scientific practice, also look at solutions beyond Ethereum: https://identity.foundation/ion/
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Bitcoin is the "narrow waist" of internet-based value
ION decentralized identity (an implementation of the SideTree protocol)
- ION - an open, public, permissionless decentralized identifier network built atop Bitcoin blockchain by Microsoft
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Do you believe Bitcoin’s idea of a distributed ledger is useful for databases other than the money database?
Other uses are extremely limited IMO. Microsoft ION, an implementation of decentralised identity w3c spec, for example. It makes a Bitcoin transaction containing a hash that refers to several identities. Since the identities are mutable there does not seem much value in remembering the hash at a point in time.
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Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe
I agree the website is very bad, currently. Maybe this page has better resources:
https://essif-lab.github.io/framework/docs/ssi-standards
But there's quite a lot going on... the work on SSI is being coordinated by the W3C Working Group on VCs (Verifiable Credentials) and DIDs (Decentralized Identifiers).
https://www.w3.org/community/credentials/
https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/
I don't know of any real-world usage yet, despite the fact that the specifications required for things to work and be used by real people already exist, and that there's a lot of DID methods (over 80 last I checked) registered, but as people have noted, most are based on blockchain (but not all... there's stuff like the peer, git, jwk DID methods that do not require blockchain)... but I have to say that, in this particular instance, blockchains may actually be a proper solution for a real problem (that of looking up public keys and metadata for entities/users in a distributed, highly-reliable manner).
https://www.w3.org/TR/did-spec-registries/#did-methods
If you want to look for related stuff, look for things that users would need to have to use SSI, like DID wallets... Some random examples I found by quickly searching:
https://www.abtwallet.io/en/
https://www.didwallet.io/
https://igrant.io/
https://www.dock.io/dock-wallet-app
https://identity.foundation/ion/
The OpenID Connect Standard is being extended to support self-issued OIDC (SIOP) which allows OIDC to interact with SSI constructs:
https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-self-issued-v2-1_0.h...
So, yeah, there's a lot of stuff being created around SSI, but admitedly, almost nothing practical yet... Hence why I was hoping to find something where this work could be very helpful, like logging into Codeberg :)
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How to get started learning web5
I would also recommend checking ION¹. I have tested a few DID Methods including Sovrin, Veres One, and ION, and the latter is the most spec-adherent and well-implemented, apart from receiving funding from companies like Microsoft and TBD (which is proposing web5 in the first place). And yes, it is the only DID Method to receive support from big tech (was incubated within Microsoft, then donated to the Decentralized Identity Foundation), and it also happens to be a technically good solution.
¹ https://identity.foundation/ion/
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An Old Timer's Tale: Segwit2x, The Block Wars: When Bitcoin Castrated the Most Powerful Players in the Ecosystem
Microsoft ION --->https://identity.foundation/ion/
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Jack Dorsey's idea of Web5 in relation to Stacks
Doing some more research: Looks like the idea is developed by tbd.website and uses a L2 tool called ION that utilizes the SideTree protocol. Interestingly, ION does not introduce a new token which I find interesting, and one of the things I've found confusing about Stacks.
- Anyone have any updates on the Microsoft Ion Digital ID layer on Bitcoin?
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Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC
A real layer 2 would look more like something built on Ethereum (can see all its L2s at https://l2beat.com).
Essentially it's a separate network that every few minutes takes every transaction and compresses it into a data blob that it saves on Ethereum along with a proof that the computation was done correctly. The Ethereum L1 nodes then only need to verify the proof instead of re-executing all transactions that happened on the L2.
With this design users can go straight from an exchange like Coinbase onto the L2 and never need to use Ethereum, and fees are 10x cheaper because of the data compression. Fees will soon be 100x cheaper as Ethereum is adding extra space just for these L2 data blobs that is much cheaper than normal Ethereum data space.
Unfortunately it can't be done on Bitcoin right now because Bitcoin nodes don't have Turing complete scripting and so can't verify the proof that an L2 posts to Bitcoin.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
We are running & maintaining the site (https://l2beat.com). Our work is to look on the current Layer 2 deployments on Ethereum & show risks and statistics to the end user. Very interesting thing is that we are a public goods company trying to stay as objective as possible in the industry full of subjectivity. What I mostly like in this job is that I am a part of the project shaping how it looks, not only mindlessly taking someones orders.
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Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?
Ecosystem fragmentation is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to rapid development through competition. Different L2s are competing against each other to provide the best service and that has lead to a cambrian explosion of solutions. It's also a very effective way to explore the solution space, I'm sure many will disappear, others will get eaten, and at some point there will be consolidation. But all this seems like a good approach early on when tackling complex problems for which the ideal trade-offs are not entirely obvious. Explore as much of the solution space as possible and trim later on.
A perhaps more pernicious problem is liquidity fragmentation. Moving assets between L2s is a tedious friction that leads to fragmentation of liquidity. In that respect, zero-knowledge rollups present a big advantage as you can share liquidity between them as long as they share some zk-circuits that allow to prove statements to both chains. All this is being very actively worked on. And the technology behind it is short of fascinating. The typical HN audience would have a huge hard-on for it, if they didn't have such a strong preconception against crypto-anything.
If anyone is curious to learn more about L2s a good starting point is here: https://l2beat.com/
And if you want to see Ethereum scaling progress you can check it here: https://l2beat.com/scaling/activity
The next major upgrade to the protocol, slated for late this year or early 2024 (date is not finalized yet), will focus on scalability by making L2 activity veeery cheap.
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"Exploring Layer 2 Solutions: Seeking insights into the current landscape and optimal choices for developers and entrepreneurs."
These two links will give you a lot of the info you need to compare L2s: https://l2beat.com/ and https://www.growthepie.xyz/ - enjoy.
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Ethereum rollups have hit the milestone of $10bn of assets and 2 million weekly active users! Scaling and adoption is finally here.
Source: https://l2beat.com
- Polygon (MATIC) Shakes Up Leadership: Potential Game Changer Incoming
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Daily General Discussion - June 7, 2023
Thanks! l2beat.com is the best.
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Are Layer 2s as secure as Layer 1?
In addition to what others said, I always find https://l2beat.com useful to see a summary of the security assumptions behind the various L2s. Currently, all L2 need to be trusted to some extent as they are still quite in development.
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Ethereum liquid staking protocol Rocket Pool deploys on zkSync Era
Exponential.fi has good summaries and links to the projects. And https://l2beat.com is also great for judging L2s.
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Next big Eth upgrade
Take a careful look at https://l2beat.com
What are some alternatives?
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l2-fees
solid - Solid - Re-decentralizing the web (project directory)
awesome-starknet - A curated list of awesome StarkNet resources, libraries, tools and more
facebook-delete - Fast facebook activity deletion
crypto-fees - Website for comparing total daily fees of various blockchain protocols.
did-core - W3C Decentralized Identifier Specification v1.0
opensea-js - TypeScript SDK for the OpenSea marketplace
field-manual - The Offical User's Guide to OrbitDB
polygon-edge - A Framework for Building Ethereum-compatible Blockchain Networks
forgefed - ForgeFed - Federation Protocol for Forge Services
consensus-specs - Ethereum Proof-of-Stake Consensus Specifications