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ilovenerdson Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, science and technology

I'm not familiar with Urbit, but a quick glance at their website says that it's owned by the "Tlon Corporation," which I have to assume is a for profit company. Ethereum on the other hand is guided, but not owned or controlled by a non-profit foundation. Ethereum is a public utility and they have a mechanism for community involvement and contribution via Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIP). Hope that helps!

ilovenerdson Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, science and technology

Exactly! What's really cool though is that communities can have their hidden members-only groups on Caches but still interact with the public at large there too. Communities could have a hidden group, only for community members, and a public group to connect with the world. Of course you have your own personal profile to reach whoever you want also.

ilovenerdson Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, science and technology

You can totally start a community here without a NFT! In fact, we want you to! Everyone is allowed to create 1 public, private or hidden group for free. But! If you have a community NFT we can create a hidden group for you, and when members of your community sign into Caches with a wallet containing that NFT, we can automatically add them to that group. Unless you have that NFT you'll never even know that group exists or how much activity is happening behind the scenes. We can also attach a badge next to community members names throughout the site showing they're a member of that community if desired.

For example, this guy is part of the Layer0 community, as you can see by the little L0 icon below his name. https://caches.xyz/members/25016e3c/

For you that may mean nothing, but for other members of Caches that little icon may bring increased trust to that member, or help him identify another member of his community in a sea of random usernames. Here's a blog post about WordPress and sign in with Ethereum that gives a broad overview of the idea.

https://caches.xyz/the-rostrum/wordpress-web3-and-ethereum-w...

ilovenerdson Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, science and technology

WebAuthn is a web standard created by the w3c. Passkey is an extension of that spec created by a consortium of tech corps. Using Ethereum is like signing a message with a GPG key. It just proves that you control the private key pair to that public address on the blockchain. WebAuthN does something similar, but instead of using the public Ethereum blockchain and private/public key pairs to verify it, it uses your TPM, an authentication key (yubikey), manufacturer metadata and a "Relying party" to make attestations. The relying party is a third party, like the FIDO metadata service, and it's specified in JavaScript so the end user can't change it.

On the other hand, with the Ethereum protocol, you only have to rely on the public blockchain to attest/sign/prove ownership. You can choose the software and hardware that you use to secure your wallet too. You can even keep that wallet airgapped, totally offline and still authenticate using QR codes. If you were so inclined you could even run your own end point/node so you're not relying on any 3rd parties to attest/sign for you. It's a self sovereign online identity if you want it to be. It also has other benefits like the ability to store monetary value in the way of cryptocurrencies.

The ability to verify ownership of digital assets (tokens), like NFTs, and use those in creative ways like we have here. You can also use the Ethereum Name Service and tie a .ETH domain name to your public key, so people know that a message sent by frizlab.eth is really you, even if you have to get a new wallet address. It's your identity (frizlab.eth), your wallet, and with NFT's I think it could also verify and visualize your reputation or skillset online too, no matter what website you're on. Your identity owned by you and built on top of a world wide, immutable, distributed, consensus protocol. I wrote an article for Wordpress developers with my ideas, but I think it can apply to the web as a whole.

https://caches.xyz/the-rostrum/wordpress-web3-and-ethereum-w...

ilovenerdson Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, science and technology

Hi, sorry for the trouble. Accept my sincerest apologies. We did not properly unblock some regions that were restricted during our testing phase. It's been corrected and the responsible party has been properly flogged and then sacked. We hope you'll try again. Thank you for the feedback!

ilovenerdson Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, science and technology

Hi everyone, we started developing Caches about a year ago and it's finally gotten to a stage that I believe it can be enjoyed by more people. Accounts are totally anonymous thanks to Sign In with Ethereum. You don't need to provide an email address or password to sign up.

Some communities groups on the site are NFT gated and some you can't even see unless you have the correct NFT in your wallet. If you have a community NFT token we would love for you to make Caches your home. Reach out to @CachesAdmin on the site.

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