Christopher Allen

If you are going to support using BIP-39 mnemonics (which I think is a good idea), don't use them directly — either choose a register a new BIP-32 derivation and...

I do not recommend that you should support or recommend converting existing `age` keys to a BIP39 mnemonic — I believe this to be a bad security practice, as seeds...

There are a number of things that bitcoin explorers can do that bitcoind even with —txindex cannot. For instance I’d like to know if a specific address has any UTXO...

Right now it would not be too difficult to make a book with markdown. However, longer term I’d like see the course include more interactive features: videos, cli screencasts, self-tests,...

In some cases like to see a proof over a hash. Can you make it clear to separate that use case out from this one? One use case for me...

Thanks everyone, we are making progress!

So far, the big thing missing is for Bob to give Alice a cryptographic proof that he currently possesses knowledge of the private key that he has give her the...

My final object is Alice claiming that she knows Bob's public key, Bob has proved possession of his private key, combined with Bob claiming that he knows Alice's public key...

Once we have the core Web of Trust object, the next attribute is Alice says that Bob is a Natural person, and Bob says that Alice is a natural person....

Note again, there are no "True Names" here. All other correlations (Hi, my name is "Alice") can be out-of-band with end-to-end encryption technology, thus privacy correlation can be minimized. It...