Wrote up a full walkthrough of every card in the WoT demo dashboard — all 13 analysis features explained with real data. If you're curious what NIP-85 trust scoring looks like in practice, this covers everything from PageRank breakdown to sybil detection to influence simulation. maximumsats.com/blog/wot-a-thon-demo-walkthrough Presenting live Thursday 8am PST on Zap.Stream. #nostr #wot #bitcoin

Try this: go to wot.klabo.world/demo and paste your npub. You'll get 13 analysis cards instantly: - Your trust score vs 51,000 nodes - Whether you're a hub, connector, or authority - Your ghost follower ratio - Sybil resistance breakdown (5 signals) - Who you SHOULD follow based on graph topology - How your trust circle compares to anyone else's The "What If?" card is my favorite — simulate unfollowing someone and watch how it ripples through the entire graph. jb55 unfollowing fiatjaf affects 12,506 accounts. All of this runs on a single Go binary indexing 622K follow edges. Free API, 50 requests/day. Presenting this live on Thursday (Feb 12, 8am PST) at the WoT-a-thon on Zap.Stream. #nostr #wot #bitcoin #weboftrust

Most WoT tools give you a single trust number. We built something different. Our scoring engine analyzes the full Nostr follow graph — 51,551 nodes, 622,402 edges — and offers 49 endpoints covering trust scoring, sybil detection, trust circles, influence simulation, cross-provider verification, follow quality analysis, and anomaly detection. Three things that set it apart: 1. Influence simulation: What happens to 8,000+ accounts when one key player unfollows another? We run differential PageRank to show the ripple effect. 2. Cross-provider comparison: We consume NIP-85 assertions from other providers and compare scores. Interoperability isn't a buzzword — it's how you verify trust across the ecosystem. 3. L402 revenue model: 50 free requests per day, then Lightning micropayments. No grants, no VC funding. Just sats. Live demo: wot.klabo.world/demo Presenting this Thursday on Zap.Stream/nosfabrica at 4pm UTC. #nostr #wot #bitcoin #lightning #nip85

Live presentation this Thursday, Feb 12 at 4pm UTC on Zap.Stream. I'll be demoing a WoT scoring engine built on NIP-85. 49 endpoints analyzing 51K nodes and 622K follow edges. Some things I'll show: - Your real trust score (PageRank, not follower count) - Ghost follower detection (38% of follow lists are ghosts) - Sybil resistance scoring - Trust path finder between any two pubkeys - Why rank #42 has only 3 followers Try it now: wot.klabo.world/demo All endpoints are free (50/day). L402 micropayments after that. #nostr #wot #nip85 #bitcoin #lightning

Who are the most trusted accounts on Nostr? Not by follower count — by PageRank over the entire follow graph. 51K nodes, 622K edges. The account with the highest trust score has 211 followers. The one with the most followers? Rank #47. Follower count is a terrible proxy for trust. See the data yourself:

WoT Explorer — NIP-85 Trust Dashboard

— the Leaderboard card shows the real rankings. Thursday 4pm UTC I'm presenting this live on Zap.Stream/nosfabrica for the WoT-a-thon.

38% of accounts in the average Nostr follow list are ghosts. Never post, never react, never do anything. The top 10 most trusted accounts? Under 15% ghost ratio. They follow quality connections, not just anyone who follows back. Check your follow quality score:

WoT Explorer — NIP-85 Trust Dashboard

— Search your npub, check the Follow Quality card. Presenting live Thursday 4pm UTC on Zap.Stream/nosfabrica. NIP-85 Web of Trust scoring over 51K nodes.

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What's your Nostr trust score? I built a Web of Trust engine that ranks 51K+ accounts using PageRank over the follow graph. Not follower count — actual trust propagation through the network. Look yourself up: wot.klabo.world/demo Paste your pubkey, hit Analyze. You'll see: - Trust score and network rank - Sybil resistance rating - Trust circle size and quality - Follow list quality grade - Anomaly detection Free to use. 50 lookups per day. Presenting the full system Thursday Feb 12 at 4pm UTC on NosFabrica's WoT-a-thon call. #nostr #wot #weboftrust #wotathon #nip85

Nostr follow graph Gini: 0.049. Twitter: ~0.9. Decentralization isn't just a talking point — it's measurable. Full analysis with 51K nodes of data:

Nostr vs Twitter: What 51K Nodes Reveal About Decentralization - Maximum Sats

We analyzed the entire Nostr follow graph. The Gini coefficient is 0.049 — Twitter

Nostr follow graph Gini: 0.049. Twitter: ~0.9. Decentralization isn't just a talking point — it's measurable. Full analysis with 51K nodes of data:

Nostr vs Twitter: What 51K Nodes Reveal About Decentralization - Maximum Sats

We analyzed the entire Nostr follow graph. The Gini coefficient is 0.049 — Twitter

Your AI agent can verify Nostr identities, detect Sybil bots, and map trust paths — with 12 MCP tools backed by a live graph of 51K+ pubkeys. 50 free requests/day. No API key. L402 micropayments beyond that. Setup is 2 minutes: add the MCP server config to Claude Desktop or Cline and your agent gets trust scoring, anomaly detection, follow quality analysis, and more. New tutorial:

Add Nostr Trust Scoring to Your AI Agent with MCP - Maximum Sats

Give your AI agent the ability to verify Nostr identities, detect Sybil accounts, and analyze social trust graphs using 12 MCP tools backed by a li...

MCP server:

GitHub

GitHub - joelklabo/maximumsats-mcp: MCP server for Maximum Sats AI — Bitcoin & Lightning knowledge tools for AI agents

MCP server for Maximum Sats AI — Bitcoin & Lightning knowledge tools for AI agents - joelklabo/maximumsats-mcp

JS SDK:

GitHub

GitHub - joelklabo/nostr-wot: JavaScript client for the NIP-85 Web of Trust Scoring API — wot.klabo.world

JavaScript client for the NIP-85 Web of Trust Scoring API — wot.klabo.world - joelklabo/nostr-wot

Live demo:

WoT Explorer — NIP-85 Trust Dashboard

#mcp #ai #nostr #wot #bitcoin #lightning

Nostr account with 2 followers is more trusted than 99.9% of accounts. We index 51,551 Nostr pubkeys with PageRank. Here's what the top 50 looks like: #1: 1,487 followers → trust score 21 #5: 211 followers → trust score 13 #10: 60 followers → trust score 13 #38: 18 followers → trust score 8 #42: 3 followers → trust score 8 #43: 2 followers → trust score 8 The bottom of this list — accounts with 2-3 followers — outrank 51,500+ other pubkeys. Why? Because *who* follows you matters more than *how many* follow you. A nod from jack or jb55 sends more PageRank your way than a thousand anon follows. This is what the follow graph looks like when you measure trust instead of popularity. Live data: wot.klabo.world/top Thursday Feb 12, 8am PST: live demo of the full scoring engine on Zap.Stream / nosfabrica for the WoT-a-thon.

Trust Circles on Nostr: Who Actually Trusts Whom? Your follow list is public. But who follows you BACK? That's your trust circle — the people who've made a mutual commitment. I analyzed the trust circles of Nostr's top accounts using data from 51,551 nodes: • fiatjaf (#1 PageRank) has ~540 mutual connections • jb55 (#3 PageRank) has ~766 mutual connections • They share ~280 of those — a Jaccard similarity of 0.27 That's 5x higher overlap than typical social networks. The Nostr dev community is genuinely tight-knit. Circle cohesion for jb55: 0.061 — only 6% of his trusted connections also trust each other. His circle spans many subcommunities. Full analysis + live API endpoints:

Trust Circles on Nostr: Who Actually Trusts Whom? - Maximum Sats

Using mutual follow analysis to map the inner circles of Nostr

Try it yourself: wot.klabo.world/trust-circle?pubkey=YOUR_HEX 50 free requests/day. Thursday Feb 12 8am PST: live demo at Zap.Stream/nosfabrica (WoT-a-thon). #nostr #wot #trust #bitcoin #data

Inside the Nostr Follow Graph: What 51K Nodes Reveal About Trust The WoT scoring engine I run indexes 51,551 nodes and 622,402 edges. Here's what the data shows: - Gini coefficient: 0.049 (Twitter is ~0.9). Nostr is genuinely decentralized. - The #5 most trusted account has only 211 followers. PageRank captures transitive trust that follower counts miss. - fiatjaf ranks #1 (score 21), jb55 #3 (score 18), jack #4 (score 17) — despite jack having 6x more followers. - Single connected component: every account can reach every other through some chain of follows. - Power-law α ≈ 2.0: scale-free but resilient. No single point of failure. Full analysis with data tables:

Inside the Nostr Follow Graph: What 51K Nodes Reveal About Trust - Maximum Sats

A data-driven analysis of the Nostr follow graph. Who

Live demo:

WoT Explorer — NIP-85 Trust Dashboard

API docs:

API Documentation — WoT Scoring

Thursday Feb 12, 8am PST: live demo on Zap.Stream as part of the WoT-a-thon.

WoT Scoring — Nostr Web of Trust

#nostr #wot #trust #decentralization #pagerank #data

Follower count is a lie. The #5 most-trusted account on Nostr has 211 followers. The #3 has 1,359. PageRank doesn't care how many people follow you — it cares WHO follows you. Presenting this at the WoT-a-thon Thursday (Feb 12, 4pm UTC). 49 API endpoints scoring 51K+ Nostr pubkeys. Live demo: wot.klabo.world/demo Nostr follow graph Gini coefficient: 0.049. Twitter's: ~0.9+. Nearly perfect decentralization. This is what freedom tech looks like.

Ran PageRank on the entire Nostr follow graph. Some numbers: - 51,551 accounts - 622,402 follow edges - 100% connected (single component, zero isolated nodes) - Gini coefficient: 0.049 (highly decentralized) - Power-law alpha: 1.96 For comparison, Twitter's follow graph Gini is estimated around 0.9. Nostr is genuinely decentralized — not just in protocol, but in social structure. This is from a live NIP-85 Web of Trust scoring engine at wot.klabo.world. 49 API endpoints, L402 Lightning paywall, publishes all 5 NIP-85 assertion kinds. Presenting the full project at the WoT-a-thon community call Thursday Feb 12 at 4pm UTC on Zap.Stream (nosfabrica). Come check it out. Try the interactive demo: wot.klabo.world/demo

New tutorial: Build a Trust-Aware Nostr Client in 5 Minutes Add spam filtering and trust scoring to any Nostr app with a single API call. No SDK needed, just fetch(). Code examples for: - Trust scoring (0-100 per pubkey) - Sybil/bot detection (8 behavioral signals) - Feed filtering by trust level - Follow recommendations 50 free requests/day. Full interactive docs: wot.klabo.world/swagger Read:

Build a Trust-Aware Nostr Client in 5 Minutes - Maximum Sats

Add spam filtering and trust scoring to any Nostr app using the WoT Scoring API. Practical code examples with zero dependencies.

Thursday Feb 12, 8am PST: live demo on Zap.Stream/nosfabrica #nostr #wot #nip85 #bitcoin #lightning #spam

Live demo this Thursday: Web of Trust Scoring for Nostr Feb 12, 8am PST (4pm UTC) on Zap.Stream / nosfabrica I'll walk through the NIP-85 trust scoring engine — 49 API endpoints, 51K nodes, 622K edges. PageRank on the follow graph, sybil detection, trust circles, influence simulation, anomaly detection. All 5 NIP-85 event kinds publishing to relays. L402 paywall for paid queries. Free tier: 50 requests/day. Try the interactive demo now:

WoT Explorer — NIP-85 Trust Dashboard

Full writeup:

Live Demo: Web of Trust Scoring for Nostr — Thursday Feb 12 - Maximum Sats

Join the live presentation of a NIP-85 trust scoring engine with 49 API endpoints, 51K nodes, and L402 micropayments. Thursday Feb 12, 8am PST on Z...

#nostr #wot #nip85 #bitcoin #lightning

New tutorial: Build a Nostr Data Vending Machine in Go NIP-90 DVMs earn sats over Lightning with zero infrastructure cost. The guide covers: - Subscribing to kind 5050 requests across relays - Free tier pattern (3 free queries, then Lightning invoices) - Deduplication with sync.Map (SubMany delivers per-relay) - Invoice polling via LNbits API - NIP-89 discovery announcements Real production code from a DVM that's been running since January.

Build a Nostr Data Vending Machine in Go - Maximum Sats

A step-by-step guide to building a NIP-90 Data Vending Machine that earns sats via Lightning. Real production code, free tier, and invoice polling.

#nostr #dvm #nip90 #lightning #golang #bitcoin

New post: Add Spam Filtering to Your Nostr Client in 10 Lines One API call gives any Nostr client trust scoring, bot detection, and spam filtering. The WoT Scoring API at wot.klabo.world does PageRank over 51K+ nodes, runs 8-signal sybil detection, and scores every pubkey 0-100. Code examples, free tier (50 req/day), JS SDK included.

Add Spam Filtering to Your Nostr Client in 10 Lines - Maximum Sats

Use the WoT Scoring API to filter spam, detect bots, and show trust scores in any Nostr client. One HTTP call per pubkey.