GM! Today, the European Parliament will vote on Chat Control 2.0 in an urgent procedure, even though it was previously rejected... Therefore there is no real urgency, people have already expressed their positions. But by pushing it this way, a majority of Parliament will need to vote against it. And since absences count as a "yes" vote, and summer has just started, you can imagine... well, these people are villains, and we’re pretty doomed in that sense.
The only good thing? Not much, tbh. We’ll have to carve our way out of this dystopia. So let's keep building 💪
The highlights:
- Covered the in-progress Marmot v2 draft and what it changes regarding privacy.
- The NIP-4e section is now fully written out instead of being a stub.
- Added subscription filters as a key piece of metadata: the filter a client sends to a relay is itself observable, and this nuance now runs through the entire piece.
- A new framework section defines the tradeoff dimensions upfront (forward secrecy, post-compromise recovery, and others), with a comparison table mapping all eight protocols across them.
- Introduced a two-observer model: external observer vs. relay operator, because some protocols hide more from one than the other.
- The conclusion now clearly distinguishes between exit sovereignty (the ability to leave a relay) and control sovereignty (governing the substrate), reframing what Nostr actually delivers.
