Man I’m still mind blown after really giving nostr a lot of thought last night. It feels like nostr is the ultimate MVP for decentralized trust. It has all the building blocks there. Just built out very simply.
I’m super keen to watch if trusted interactions can be fulfilled on here with just this, and no additional “governance”. I hope so. I think it’s possible, in a super organic way.
There may be ways to make the setup more efficient. But I think the fundamentals are all there
A comparable to nostr, when laid out in decentralized identity terms:
1. DID:Web:Cash App issues VC to me that I’m NickB according to them.
2. I present VC to Twitter that Cash App says I’m NickB.
3. A VC is then appended to my profile, next to a verification symbol, accessible to anyone who visits, stateing that Cash App identified me as NickB.
Anyone can publish un-censorable feedback on the quality of that verification by posting. And anyone can issue me other VCs which I can choose to present to prove anything else about myself (aka nip-58 in nostr land)
I think the only thing missing is a more structured way to crawl nostr space for “ratings” on other npubs. For example, you should be able to discern “npub xyz is 4.7 stars for xyz according to 5,000 nip05 users”
May be a good use of nostr.band I just suppose you’d need a more structured way to provide feedback
