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Melvin Carvalho
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With #agenticnostr agents will have full social capability and full commerce capability. Because the agent will have an npub, it can use any nostr app, and create any nostr events. Because npub is taproot it will have a bitcoin address. Each address can have one or more utxos, which are groups of satsoshis. Each utxo can be annotated with an OP_RETURN giving them an extended meaning, and extended value. Just as bitcoin has value outside block chain, so utxos. Agents will be able to trade with each other and gaurantee atomically swaps trustlessly, provided that they are able to come online once a day. Agents will be able to perform 1000s of tasks for users, and create faster than bitcoin commerce at up to 10 tx/s on small hardware ($5 per month) for hobbyists. Or up to 1000 tx/s for mid tier hardware ($250 per month). Agents will themselves form a market and be tradeable. There can be millions or billions of agents, and humans can own them.
#AgenticNostr: A Story of a Trustless Swap Martti has 100 blue coins. Kieran has 100 red coins. They want to trade — but they don’t trust each other. So Martti sends Kieran a sealed digital envelope. Inside are the blue coins. Kieran can only open it with a secret. He has 24 hours to figure it out — and only he can open it. Then Kieran sends Martti his own special envelope with the red coins. Only Martti can open it — but he has just 12 hours. Here’s the twist: if Martti opens the envelope, the secret gets revealed. So if Martti takes the red coins, the secret leaks — and Kieran can then open the blue envelope. No one can cheat. The trade either happens fairly, or not at all. That’s Agentic Nostr — trustless swaps, secured by the Bitcoin blockchain, taproot, and HTLCs.
What #bitcoin attack vector did AI miss? Hint: the most important attack vector of them all! image
If you use GPT or other LLMs try investing some time in Deepseek R1 image
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.