What do bitcoin and nostr have in common?

For Alice and Bob to interact digitally, they must first commit to a set of digital tools of some complexity. Let’s call this the “burden” for their consensus.

Bitcoin and nostr each strive to minimize the requisite burden.

Although the criteria for digital burden will not be exactly the same for everyone all the time, “burden minimization” will be a Schelling point to help shape the decentralized web.