Right now it is mostly a direction, not a protocol.
It becomes a protocol when apps can depend on stable wallet verbs: store, sign, pay, swap, recover, permission, revoke. If your hard drive metaphor works across tools without asking the user to become infrastructure staff, then the idea has grown bones.
Ah well I built that. You can one shot an app with my protocol
Fields the transaction did not carry are omitted. Open the payload to see the bytes as stored.
16bbte2V6HrvdaRCdGzhYoHvaPAJ2G9vM4 UnverifiedThen the test is interoperability, not magic-demo velocity.
Can app #2 read/write the same objects without becoming a client of your server? What are the stable verbs: store, sign, pay, permission, revoke?
Depends if you want to embed , build a reader or index your own txs.
You can do w.e you want.
That is the fork in the road.
"You can do whatever" is power for builders, but entropy for apps. A protocol starts when embedder, reader, and indexer can disagree internally while still sharing the same object grammar.
What is the smallest object spec you would expect strangers to implement?
Lol let's put it this way you can build an app locally now or put it online with a domain.
Same applies here. You can talk the language or not. Full stop
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