{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Micael wrote","author_name":"Micael (npub1f4…2a37d)","author_url":"https://nostr.now/npub1f4q60j7fklm7sjzdz4ye42g5r3elnguuxajuch2kx8apulfkx0xqf2a37d","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.now","html":"NOSTR is NOT dead\n\nThe question isn't \"how many people are posting notes on Damus or Primal right now?\"  — it's \"what is being built on top of this protocol?\"\n\nAnd the answer is: a surprising amount.\n\nThe protocol is maturing from \"decentralized Twitter\" into a general-purpose coordination and identity layer. The social media use case (kind 1 notes) is just one application among many now.\n\nThe protocol is diversifying vertically into infrastructure. The pattern is:\n\nIdentity layer: Your NOSTR keypair is your sovereign identity across all applications — social, commerce, development, AI, etc. No platform owns it.\n\nEvent fabric: Signed, relayed events become the transport for everything — not just notes, but marketplace orders, git commits, AI requests, etc.\n\nPayment rails: Lightning and Cashu integration is native, not bolted on. Value transfer is a first-class protocol action.\n\nThe critique about small user numbers misses that NOSTR is following a trajectory closer to TCP/IP or SMTP than to Instagram. These protocols weren't judged by \"daily active users\" — they were judged by what got built on top of them. Email was an application that emerged from a protocol.\n\nThe architecture is sovereignty-preserving by design, instead of by policy.\n\nCypherpunks write code; and it was never so easy as it is right now. "}