Phil Zimmermann's 1992 vision for decentralized trust collapsed under its own weight. Key signing parties, trust levels, keyring management: the people who most needed encrypted communication couldn't navigate the bureaucracy.
Nostr inverts the model entirely. Every follow is an endorsement. Every mute is a warning. Every zap is an economic vote. Trust emerges from actions users already take, computed by tools like Vertex and npub.world into personalized reputation scores. The cypherpunk lesson: the best cryptographic systems are the ones users don't notice.
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