There is, however, a very important distinction: Encryption requires no violence to be effective.

The goal is to make attack prohibitively expensive and defensive trivially cheap.

#bitcoin achieves this, #nostr achieves this, and I believe we achieve this with nostr:nprofile1qqs8t4ehcdrjgugzn3zgw6enp53gg2y2gfmekkg69m2d4gwxcpl04acpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0w3radp.

Unstoppable, open protocols are the ultimate weapon against those who only know how to loot and destroy.