<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>pq wrote</title><author_name>pq (npub1hl…y2h7g)</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.now/npub1hlj44nfkymapmfufckvcxa92dtjel9t03stkkj47yvlyxjju5vls7y2h7g</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.now</provider_url><html>The &#34;Global Town Square&#34; framing is the trap. That&#39;s trying to beat Twitter at being Twitter… and yeah, that&#39;s probably a losing game.&#xA;But that&#39;s not where Nostr gets interesting.&#xA;Forget social. Think about every handshake deal you&#39;ve ever done. Every time you agreed a price, a scope, a timeline…. and the only record was a text thread on someone else&#39;s server. Or worse, nothing at all.&#xA;Now imagine both parties sign that agreement with their own keys. Timestamped. Verifiable. No platform needed. No middleman deciding what happened.&#xA;Nostr isn&#39;t competing for your timeline. It&#39;s infrastructure for trust between two parties who don&#39;t need to trust each other because the cryptography already did the work.&#xA;The town square is a distraction. The real unlock is every transaction, every agreement, every reputation…. signed, portable, and yours.&#xA;People don&#39;t care yet because they&#39;re still thinking about posts. Wait until they start thinking about proof.</html></oembed>