That's a good idea.

Could you use a badge that started as a pass to a class and finished with a complete badge/certificate upon completion?

yes

Absolutely OK to share, we have scope for 3 part time devs on this starting Jan 3 2025. FOSS PWA Real world applications Proof of work for NOSTR. Badges. Because - RECOGNITION is the first form of IDENTIFICATION. View quoted note →

Love it. The next step in the self custody of identity.

Seems perfect for education certification then , or even tickets to events , probably some way to organize your badges would be necessary

I would abstract away from the term “badge” and group it under a more general term and allow all of these use cases under that umbrella. You’d have a client which does essentially the same thing slightly different under different terminology.

Yup, this is a killer idea! This is really the #nostr counterpart to verifiable credentials and way more simple. I’d call it a ‘nostr credential’ which would encompass badges, certificate, anything that can be signed for that matter.

LOL Karnage is a day late and a dollar short, as usual. Took this whole time, for the info to trickle all the way down to him, from me, geez. That was like 3 months, or something.

It’s still a killer idea, though.

Not my idea btw, although credentialing has been floated around for as long as badges were around, I just never cared much to give it any thought.

He can't see what I write, so he always has to wait for someone else to pass it on. We already do this, with @Purple Konnektiv. If you attend the meetup and leave a good impression on us ladies, you get a badge. And @GitCitadel might start doing SW quality audits, with badges, since we have so many QAers on board. Maybe with different levels, like CMMi audits. Gold, Silver, Bronze, etc. (But don't tell Karnage. It's a secret.)

The super idea is that anyone with a npub can be a credential issuing authority. It’s one thing not to know who is the relevant credential issuing authority, it’s an entirely another thing to have to rely on a ‘certificate authority’ cartel to issue a certificate on your behalf and according to their rules. TBH, along with zaps, I find this to be one of the most exciting aspects of #nostr.