Plebchain Radio - Say WoT? (5): Proof of Person with Nathan Day and David Strayhorn

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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What does it mean to be human online? In an age of AI agents posting, interacting, and transacting across the network, the question has stopped being philosophical and started being structural. I join Avi Burra and David Strayhorn to dig into proof of personhood and why your social graph might be the most non-intrusive way to solve it.

On Nostr, bots are first-class citizens. The problem isn’t that they exist, it’s that we have no native way to tell who is who they claim to be. I trace my path from BTC Map’s proof-of-place to the attestation primitives that grew out of that work, and now to the Person NIP I’m preparing to publish. David comes at the same problem from the other side: tags and decentralized lists, community-curated structures where web-of-trust scoring filters the spam by default.

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Plebchain Radio - Say WoT? (5): Proof of Person with Nathan Day and David Strayhorn

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