The Bitcoin Game #73: Tim Pastoor, P2P Identity

The Bitcoin Game

Welcome to episode 73 of The Bitcoin Game, sponsored by eToro. When I started paying attention to Bitcoin Twitter in 2013, I noticed a guy named Tim Pastoor, who seemed pretty well-respected by the Bitcoin Twitter community. He and I eventually became good friends on Twitter, so much so that we hung out for a long afternoon when I visited Amsterdam a few years ago. Tim has been focused on peer-to-peer identity and reputation systems for the past five years, supporting Martti Malmi's work in the space (Martti was the first coder to work with Satoshi on Bitcoin). Twitter's Jack Dorsey recently garnered a ton of attention promoting the goal of decentralized social media, and P2P identity may well be the base layer for such projects. Hope you enjoy our talk!

Oh, and a correction Tim gave me after our interview - Microsoft's Distributed ID project is now called Ion.

EPISODE LINKS

Tim Pastoor on Twitter https://twitter.com/timpastoor

Jack Dorsey's Tweet about Decentralized Social Media https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106

Complementary Currencies (LETS, Brixton Pound, etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary_currency

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer

Martti Malmi (article) https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/10/8751933/the-shy-college-student-who-helped-build-bitcoin-into-a-global

Identifi (now Iris) https://identifi.github.io/

Microsoft Decentralized Identity https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/technology/own-your-identity

W3C Decentralized Identifiers https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core

Carsten Keutmann's Digital Trust Protocol https://medium.com/@carstenkeutmann_96497/digital-trust-protocol-c37e17eeca20

Sovrin https://sovrin.org

Urbit ID https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/urbit-id

Sockpuppet Account https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)

Sybil Swarm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

Six Degrees of Separation Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

Metcalfe's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law

Network Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

Microsoft's Ion (Decentralized Identity) https://github.com/decentralized-identity/ion

Anchoring into the Blockchain https://medium.com/@edhonour/how-anchors-help-ensure-authenticity-on-the-blockchain-3359051a181

TJ Miller on The Adam Carolla Show (see part two) https://adamcarolla.com/tj-miller-and-mark-geragos

Switchboard Operator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchboard_operator

Bell Labs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs

Iris GitHub https://github.com/irislib

Iris Proof-of-Concept https://iris.to

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