"Censorship-Resistance" is an Ideal, Not a Practical Guarantee.
The #Nostr protocol, in theory, makes global censorship difficult. In practice, censorship has only been decentralized, shifting from big platforms to individual relays. The user has to face not a single giant to fight, but a maze of small gatekeepers (relays), each with its own whitelists, NIP-05, or authorization requests. This maze, in itself, is an effective barrier that limits freedom of expression as much as a central moderator, but in a more opaque and hard-to-challenge way. The ideal of a free public square clashes with the reality of an infrastructure made of walled gardens.
Quantum security represents a high-impact future scenario. Quantum computers could potentially break the elliptic curve cryptography (ECDSA) that protects Bitcoin addresses. If this occurred, private key security would be compromised. The network could react with an emergency hard fork to migrate toward quantum-resistant algorithms. The transition would require global community coordination and could create tensions between conservatism and innovation.
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Lack of a Native Anti-Spam Mechanism
The Nostr protocol does not incorporate a native and robust mechanism for spam prevention. Unlike protocols or platforms that use an on-chain reputation system, computational costs (Proof-of-Work), or economic barriers (micro-payments) to discourage spam, Nostr relies primarily on individual client implementations. This means that each client (e.g., applications like Amethyst or Damus) must develop and maintain its own filters, blacklists, or heuristic algorithms to identify and suppress unwanted messages. This fragmented approach leads to an inconsistent user experience: a user might be effectively protected from spam on one client but be flooded with unwanted messages on another. Furthermore, spammers can adapt their attacks specifically to evade the filters of a particularly popular client, undermining the overall ecosystem. The lack of a unified defense at the protocol level is considered a structural vulnerability that could become more critical as the network's popularity increases.
Immunity by Proof of Work
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