Nostr is not a social network with payments. It's a payments network with social. At the heart of nostr is bitcoin taproot for every identity. Every npub is a taproot address with a different prefix and checksum. That means that every nostr account is a wallet and vice versa. Whether or not this proves to be a good design decision, time will tell. But it opens many unexpored doors.

NIP-XX: Decentralized Social Verification for Sybil Resistance aka Orange Check

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NIP-XX: Decentralized Social Verification for Sybil Resistance aka Orange Check · Issue #1851 · nostr-protocol/nips

Motivation Nostr currently lacks robust mechanisms for Sybil resistance. Creating multiple anonymous accounts (sock-puppets) to influence discussio...

Nostr would benefit from Sybil Resistance. It is easy and cheap to spin up a set anonymous accounts that act as sock-puppets for a given agenda. This works because anonymous accounts do not have "skin in the game". If nostr grows, this will be a no-brainer for certain groups to influence to platform. It might be happening already, but as nostr grows, the incentives grow for a Sybil attack. One way to do this, but not the only way, is what is called Social Verification. An example is the blue checks on twitter, or facebook social verification. A simple way to implement this, is similar to GPG key signing parties, but much easier. What you do is identify someone on the network that is a real person. You then send some coins to that taproot address (npub == taproot) with an OP_RETURN saying "VERIFIED". In this way you build out a verified user base on nostr, in a decentralized way. No centralized blue checks, just users verifying other users in a web of trust. Its easy enough to do. Just make a taproot tx with an OP_RETURN = verified and broadcast it to the network.

TESTING ON CHAIN ZAPS. PROBABLY NOTHING.

#agenticnostr

Starting this year, anyone will be able to buy an Agent, a virtual assitant, a personal helper. Or run their own. When done with it, it can be sold on. Leading to a market of increasingly, moire helpful, robot friends.

Zaps are great. But on-chain is 1000x bigger than LN. While zaps are needed, on-chain zaps would work far more robustly than zaps. And at far bigger scale, with more tips for creators. Also at higher layers such as our own side chains, it scales commerce almost infinitely.

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Nostr + Git is about to make a comeback ...

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Experimenting with #testnet4 wallet and #nostr -- WIP -- likely buggy

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What is the next big idea? It's the original web, of course, with javascript, plus modern tooling and a few tweeks, leading to a web operatings system. Why? Because it's an idea that: - nobody can stop - everybody needs - nobody understands The next, version of the web, is a joy to use.

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Artificial Intelligence - foundations of computational agents

1.1 What is Artificial Intelligence? ‣ Chapter 1 Artificial Intelligence and Agents ‣ Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents, 3rd Edition

Your NIP-05 should point to the latest verion of your profile. That would solve a good chunk of the problems in nostr.