Nostr is less interesting to me as a communications protocol per se - at that layer it's just a bunch of websocket clients and servers with novel ways of discovering each other and a shared understanding of how to encode datagrams- but the sort of de-facto "not quite petnames, not quite SSL certs, something else" identity layer that has built up on top of that is frigging nuts
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The fact that tamper proof signatures on messages is so simple is also a big deal. People have been trying to get that type of feature integrated into email for decades. With nostr it’s so easy most people probably don’t realize they’re doing it.
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