Daniel Buchner

@lemoustachiste yes, we didn't add the POW challenge setup to the node's code (it's just a thing we needed at Microsoft for ours) because we didn't think people would really...

The info on that Microsoft site no longer reflects the more recent versions of the Sidetree protocol, and subsequently DID Methods built on it, such as ION, Element, etc. The...

@fabianekc thank you for investing your time in this. I realize this repo doesn't look very active, but that's because most of the code actually lives in the Sidetree repo...

Creating a DID is fleshed out in this lib here, with easy code to do so: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@decentralized-identity/ion-tools

@charliehur this is returning a boolean, and looks like a docs nit - should I just change the doc to say boolean, or do you want that plus a method/way...

@OR13 let's talk - I can provide some info on what the issues/details are that make this a significant need at this level.

Another way to do this, as Orie noted on a call, would be to reserve the first two characters of a DID suffix string for this type of category indicator...

It's definitely not breaking anything about self-certification, given any additional values in the Suffix Data are implicitly part of the ID itself. (aside: Sidetree was the first self-certifying type of...

The proposal for the type string, which would not even happen in Sidetree itself, was a 4 byte value to be included in the Suffix Data object that makes up...

I remember thinking in 2017: "I should probably just make this sucker the hash of the initial state, because then you can tie a lineage of deltas to it deterministically"