Frank Nostr himself!

He died so it may live!

Prolly the Fed.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/05/30/bitcoin-social-network-nostr-creator-fiatjaf-/

Fiatjaf, as he said it was probably conceived of before, but creators skipped over it because they wanted a true p2p decentralized. Having relays is not necessarily ideal, but it is incentive compatible.

Fiatoshi Jafamoto.

The Nostr protocol was created by nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6