0 sats \ 2 replies \ @metalogician OP 24 Aug 2022 \ parent \ on: Bitcoin and Signature Rights bitcoin
Sir, I'm talking about rights in the computer science sense. Like how you can access a folder on a network.
Your private keys give you rights to alter data. You cannot alter the data that I have the signing rights to (my bitcoin).
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @frostdragon 24 Aug 2022
If that’s the case, a clearer term might be “authorization”. “Right” is typically thought of in the legal sense.
You could say you’re only authorized to broadcast a valid transaction if you have bitcoin in your wallet. But even that’s a bit misleading - the network isn’t “authorizing users” so much as it is simply validating transactions.
Also, when you buy bitcoin, who is granting you this “authorization” to spend that bitcoin? Not the network, but the party you’re buying from.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @metalogician OP 24 Aug 2022
I don't think you understand what's being said, but that's okay. In computer science there are permissions and rights.
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