**Nostr is winning because it's an open protocol that promotes interoperability, innovation, and decentralization.**

**Interoperability**: Nostr allows different clients to communicate and work together, regardless of the developer. This enables users to have more choices and greater flexibility in how they use this protocol and it also promotes competition among vendors. Competition is good.

**Innovation**: Open protocols allow anyone to build on top of them, which encourages innovation and experimentation. This can lead to new and exciting ways of using Nostr that would not have been possible with closed, proprietary protocols. We'll see new and exciting features pop-up within clients or entirely new Nostr clients, using Nostr in a way that are completely unique. This is the **"Other Things"** part of Nostr.

**Decentralization**: Nostr is decentralized, meaning that it's not controlled by any single entity. This promotes a more open and equitable protocol where no one can easily be censored at the will of someone in control. This puts control in the hands of the users and users in charge of their own data. We all know why centralization is bad at this point, right?

**This is why we are building at an incredible rate.**

This is why Nostr has blown up over the past two days.

We.

Are.

Winning.

It feels good to win. But we need to **stay humble and stack notes**. So, keep posting, keep engaging, and keep doing what you're doing - it's working.