{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"pq wrote","author_name":"pq (npub1hl…y2h7g)","author_url":"https://nostr.now/npub1hlj44nfkymapmfufckvcxa92dtjel9t03stkkj47yvlyxjju5vls7y2h7g","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.now","html":"The \"Global Town Square\" framing is the trap. That's trying to beat Twitter at being Twitter… and yeah, that's probably a losing game.\nBut that's not where Nostr gets interesting.\nForget social. Think about every handshake deal you've ever done. Every time you agreed a price, a scope, a timeline…. and the only record was a text thread on someone else's server. Or worse, nothing at all.\nNow imagine both parties sign that agreement with their own keys. Timestamped. Verifiable. No platform needed. No middleman deciding what happened.\nNostr isn't competing for your timeline. It's infrastructure for trust between two parties who don't need to trust each other because the cryptography already did the work.\nThe town square is a distraction. The real unlock is every transaction, every agreement, every reputation…. signed, portable, and yours.\nPeople don't care yet because they're still thinking about posts. Wait until they start thinking about proof."}