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Gotta get more influence, hate to say it. Snowden using it, Jack using it, TechCrunch mentioning Nostr, etc. Someone/companies needs to use it for their main comms to take off. It would be swell if local governments switch to it instead of X for important announcements but it’s not ready yet, frankly.
Networking consists of four types of nodes, and the connections between them. The nodes are individuals, groups, ideas and events. each of these has specific properties and they all interact with each other in different ways. the more that can be programmed directly onto the protocol layer, the better.
WhatsApp dominates the world for messaging and phone, and for corporate engagement, even more so than websites, it seems. And social media have replaced social networks for human-to-human interactions. Where are the connections in the next 10 years? Machine-to-machine interaction such as IIoT-to-AI. Centralized APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic) are siloed. If you build an autonomous AI agent, it currently has no standard way to "talk" to an agent from another company, negotiate a task, or pay for it. An agent can have an identity (npub), listen for job requests (relays), deliver the work (encrypted DMs), and get paid instantly (Zaps/Lightning).