This is deeply fascinating! Economics seems to explain even more than just the parts of politics we usually think about. Long read, but really worth it! View article →

Wow, finally zapping via Primal (or anywhere on Nostr) via NWC worked for me. The last days I thought I had distributed a dozen zaps or so. I still don't know what the underlying issue was. A combination of creating a new NWC connection, deleting the old one, and opening Primal in a new tab finally did the trick. I don't know how I should feel about that. My feelings are quite mixed. My general user experience with Nostr has been one of much confusion and frustration. On the other hand, I feel some elation about finally having mastered the basics.

This technology seems quite useful for many applications running on the #nostr network! View article →

The idea of quantifying trust as threshold amount of money you expect someone to embezzle or not embezzle is quite innovative. But in a pseudonymous context large amounts of trust can only be reasonably established via reputation or personal trust. While the idea of personal trust and its implications of transitive trust are the subject of web of trust systems, I have been thinking about decentralized reputation system for quite a while - shortly after the emergence of Bitcoin in fact. I have developed a theoretical reputation system called Quantified Prestige, which is based on quantified esteem attributions. Only rather recently, I realized that Nostr provides a suitable basis for this system in a decentralized context. Those esteem attributions can easily be implemented as custom Nostr messages. It's just aggregation across relays and Sybil protection that require some relatively elaborate mechanisms. The result is indeed "merely" a reputation score, but as a global starting point for interactions with unknown pseudonymous actors that's certainly a good starting point. Here is a recent introduction to Quantified Prestige:

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Towards a Positive Peer to Peer Reputation-based Economy: Quantified Prestige

Quantified Prestige is a concept for a positive peer to peer reputation-based economy. Its motto is "Positive reputation done right". The system is...

Linking my #introduction article:

A Radical Visionary arrived in Nostr

Introduction of a philosophical science fiction author and full stack developer

It seems to me that articles need to get mentioned in notes to reach significant attention. Anyway, the #nostr learning curve is still quite steep in 2026.