The more I work on distributed systems, the less I think of Nostr as a social protocol.
I increasingly see it as a trust protocol.
What fascinates me isn’t the social layer—it’s that every event is cryptographically signed and independently verifiable.
That changes how I think about coordination between systems.
Instead of trusting the infrastructure, you can trust the data itself.
I think that’s a fundamental shift, and I’m excited to explore where it leads.
What do you think—is Nostr’s biggest opportunity social media, or trust infrastructure?
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2026-06-24 14:09:27 UTC
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2026-06-24 14:09:27 UTCEvent JSON
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