there is a property in common between the need for a single global currency for the internet, which #bitcoin provides, and #nostr - which is the need for a single social network identity.

there will be an eventual convergence on nostr as an identity system because it lacks the limitations of all of the others: transportabliity and the ability to store attestations of other network identities.

the property of bitcoin that has made it the dominant cryptocurrency is called "moneyness" and this stems from a market need for marketability of the commodity that is to be used as money. this is why bitcoin keeps on growing in value and userbase.

the equivalent in an identity system for the internet is the need to be able to identify a singular point at which anyone can go look and see "that's this guy". keybase (RIP) had a scheme for attestation to link network identities together, but it didn't have the self-sovereign identity base for it. so it never took off for this purpose, even though it made it quite easy to do.

what people want to be able to do is just publish one event that says "i'm this user on X, this user on facebook, this user on gmail, this user on protonmail..." and so on. there is only one place on the internet right now where you can do that, where connecting accounts together can be achieved:

nostr.