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The #nostr core requirement for 1:♾️ capability is sovereignty. For existing capabilities, the sovereignty requirement was never really understood or swept under the rug for more immediate opportunities. My belief is that the sovereignty requirement is equally crucial for an individual as it is for a nation state or any organization for that matter. With #nostr, I believe we’ve landed on an architecture that scales to infinite degree for anyone/anything that wishes to be sovereign.
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Melvin Carvalho 1y ago

Yes, but nostr is really two protocols combined:

1. Nostr Identity -- scales to billions of users

2. Nostr relays -- provably scales to 1000s and up to 1 million users perhaps

Both are valuable, 1 is very high on the sovereignity spectrum. But can also be combined with other systems to make them reach parity.

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Tim Bouma 1y ago

Good point, but for simplicity I see them as one. Nostr identities have little value without the relays. I know this is semantics, but what I am looking for is a simple way to communicate to normies.

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Nostr Dev Team 1y ago

Actually the fact that Nostr works WITHOUT relays is a superpower

nostr:nprofile1qqsxhugzf33nvzfmvvkm9k3pkedyf37c9qcy2na56atrfw3grctpeyqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmd9ujp7g6q brings Document Signing to those without internet (offline mode)

https://docs.sigit.io/#/offline

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Melvin Carvalho 1y ago

Nostr Identity + Relays scales to 1000s

Nostr Identity + NIP-98 scales to billions