Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Proposal: Invoices/Payments/Receipts

From: Elden Tyrell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:38:09 -0800

On 2012-12-21 17:05:21 +0000, Stephen Pair said:
> Also, identity is one thing, an elaborate trust based identity 
> verification system (like CA's) is a whole other thing.

Your distinction between "identity" and "trust-based identity" is one 
of the most important insights to emerge from this thread.  Thank you 
for pointing this out.

> the first task at hand is to implement secure, private messaging... 
> it's easy to do and you don't need to solve the PKI problem.