One of the coolest new services that I discovered at nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r was nostr:npub1mftv2j67vayavkks8rqev3u8jjhefe86tf80msstfxvpunk9vmps6prkl3 from nostr:npub1gunkavtrl32txueexz44el2l49rg0gv48pc6suadf7hwj852tuuqj3nudq. It's a peer to peer bitcoin trading app, with a web of trust, and no KYC. The WoT doesn't use Nostr, at least yet, because "Nostr needs more users to make that WoT more viable" and now relies on your phone's contact list. I can understand that. I guess we'll have to bug him in a year when Nostr is doing numbers 😂🫂
I love this! But Nostr will need more than just a larger user base to provide reliable Web of Trust verification. We’re gonna need better WoT tools.
Specifically, Nostr users have no means to explicitly “mark” another npub as “trusted”. Web of Trust currently depends on arbitrary algos (different for every client) to “imply” or “derive” that one user trusts another.
Follow does not equal Trust.
Nostr needs a WoT standard.
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