{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1dtr22xd42nv07un2xq0rmtkqkjylgsmexau0anxxafa9xmmn2ncshu7wrs","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1dtr22xd42nv07un2xq0rmtkqkjylgsmexau0anxxafa9xmmn2ncshu7wrs","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2013-11-02\n📝 Original message:On Saturday, November 02, 2013 5:01:43 AM bitcoingrant at gmx.com wrote:\n\u003e In celebration of the 5 year anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper, we are\n\u003e delighted to introduce the Message Signing based authentication method. In\n\u003e brief, the authentication work as follows:\n\u003e Server provides a token for the client to sign.\n\u003e client passes the signed message and the bitcoin address back to the\n\u003e server. server validates the message and honors the alias (optional) and\n\u003e bitcoin address as identification. http://forums.bitcoingrant.org/\n\u003e Above is a proof of concept forum that utilize this authentication method.\n\nCongratulations! You've reinvented what Eligius and Bitcoin-OTC have been \ndoing for years! :)\n\nThere's no reason to ask the user to provide the address every time, though...\n\nLuke"}