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⚡️L402 (Lightning HTTP 402) Reverse Proxy ⚡️

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⚡️L402 (Lightning HTTP 402) Reverse Proxy ⚡️

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Observed mentions: 2021-01-15 17:13:21 UTC to 2024-11-26 19:37:27 UTC.

02462021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 3 submissions, 4 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 2 submissions, 5 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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The first part of solving this problem may lie in tying identity with micro payments to make and read updates/comments on content. We would do this by implementing the 402 HTTP code stub using the Lightning Network. There already exists a proxy to implement this: https://github.com/lightninglabs/aperture The second part of implementing this is to increase the cost of producing bad content for a particular identity. Using a proof of stake type system based on the identity and content, not the coin itself, might allow decent scaling of moderation. > work by selecting validators in proportion to their quantity of holdings In this particular case, the comments on the content (holdings) become the selecting validators. The more high quality validations through consensus of other identities, the cheaper it becomes to comment as a particular ide
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ntity. If the identity becomes a bad actor later, subsequent consensus from other identities increases the cost of that identity posting new content related (through identity) to their older, higher quality content. In a way, the content an identity produces becomes their "ego" or "account". But, by using crypto identities, no "account" is needed. A tag may be added to the content in a particular system to indicate which transaction and identity was responsible for paying to add that content. The system remains secure for privacy of participating individuals, other than what they leak through posting their thoughts to a public forum.
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Hi y'all, roasbeef here, the co-creator of the LSAT protocol! Was really thrilled to see this link organically get so far up on HN. Since we initially released the linked website and corresponding blog post [1] a year ago, we've continued to develop Aperture [2], a pure-Go reverse proxy that natively speaks the LSAT protocol. We use Aperture in front of all our Lightning/Bitcoin related services, with the LSAT credential itself serving as richly featured API tokens. We have a lot of cool stuff planned to bridge the gap here between the server-side/protocol and the web itself, in the form of a new "Lightning Browser Kernel" that'll abstract away a lot of the underlying flow, to make logging in or beginning to stream payments for a computational API as easy as clicking a button. Excited to be able to share more in this direction towards the
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end of the year. On the web application side, since then developers like Buck have also started to release wrappers around _existing_ web application frameworks to allow developers to add Lightning-based monetization/metering/authentication directly into their web apps [3]. If you want to see the web app wrapper live, then check out this LSAT playground that lets you interactively produce/verify/satisfy an LSAT right from your browser [4]. Happy to field any questions related to LSAT our our vision of the Lightning Native web! [1]: https://lightning.engineering/posts/2020-03-30-lsat/ [2]: https://github.com/lightninglabs/aperture [3]: https://github.com/tierion/now-boltwall [4]: https://lsat-playground.bucko.vercel.app/
In LSAT: Lightning Service Authentication Token

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