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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CREDITS All music in this episode was created by me, or is from a jam wi