rich1.0Micael (npub1f4…2a37d)https://nostr.now/npub1f4q60j7fklm7sjzdz4ye42g5r3elnguuxajuch2kx8apulfkx0xqf2a37dnjumphttps://nostr.nowNOSTR is NOT dead The 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?" And the answer is: a surprising amount. The 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. The protocol is diversifying vertically into infrastructure. The pattern is: Identity layer: Your NOSTR keypair is your sovereign identity across all applications — social, commerce, development, AI, etc. No platform owns it. Event fabric: Signed, relayed events become the transport for everything — not just notes, but marketplace orders, git commits, AI requests, etc. Payment rails: Lightning and Cashu integration is native, not bolted on. Value transfer is a first-class protocol action. The 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. The architecture is sovereignty-preserving by design, instead of by policy. Cypherpunks write code; and it was never so easy as it is right now.