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I think we've hit what Seth Godin calls "The Dip" Nostr may never be a replacement for Twitter/X, but it is amazing, and opens up a whole world of possibilities. I see it as the social / identity / marketplace layer for Bitcoin... and a decentralised communications layer for other apps. The work on Cashu is a testament to this... Nutzaps, P2PK locking of tokens to npubs show how Nostr can enable decentralized payments. I can send you sats locked to your identity without you even having a lightning address in your Nostr profile. We are barely scratching the surface of what Nostr's use cases.

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The concept of nsec/npub itself is liberating, sure other id schemes have existed (pgp, ssh keys, user/password) but they all fail in various ways (too technical, not portable, not fully developed idea, rely on memory). I GET nsec/npub in a way that I never really understood ssh keys or pgp for some reason even though they are very similar there are also other protocols that are similar but you never hear of them....