In the beginning, Bitcoin used IRC…

Melvin Carvalho — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:35:24 GMT

In the beginning, Bitcoin used IRC to seed connections to its network. It later moved to DNS seeds, a pattern many P2P networks still follow today.

With the advent of DID Nostr and the Nostr relay network, you can now bootstrap any P2P system that uses public/private keys—just by pointing to a Relay Set. You only need a single relay that hosts your public key, and you're ready to go.

From the relay, you fetch the DID document. From the DID document, you get all the services. You're not tied to DNS, to any single network, or any centralized infrastructure.

This means: global bootstrapping for P2P networks—built in, for free. And that's just one of dozens of use cases enabled by #didnostr.

Try it out:

npx did-nostr-resolver create

What comes next?

- Personal storage
- Taproot Wallets
- Consistent profiles
- Git without GitHub
- Smart Commerce
- BitTorrent mainline integration for true censorship-resistance

The sky's the limit. And it scales OOMs more than the current nostr network. Once NIP-05 providers upgrade to support this (maybe even offering it as a paid service), users will gain a premium Nostr identity —portable, extensible, and capable of so much more.

Identity Workbench importing #didnostr identity

Melvin Carvalho — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 10:45:23 GMT

Identity Workbench importing #didnostr identity

still early but the first #didnostr…

Melvin Carvalho — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:51:05 GMT

still early but the first #didnostr resolver is starting to work!

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@blockcore/nostr-did-resolver

First sign of independent developers implementing…

Melvin Carvalho — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:10:58 GMT

First sign of independent developers implementing #didnostr ... love to see it!