Gotta love the fact that NOSTR allows us to mute any user we suspect is acting a little too sus, but its gonna get cumbersome when this network ever gets flooded with psyop accounts and/or bots.
We're gonna need a relay-level "mute" feature as well soon.
The latter part of Bitcoin's adoption will only work once we collectively decide to pay others in Bitcoin, and more importantly, offer jobs that pay in Bitcoin within the same circular economy. The value of the dollar is solely based on "just trust me bro". If we believed that the dollar is nothing but paper and endless credit, then its adoption will tank among the people themselves.
From there, whatever serves as the superior store of value, means of exchange, and unit of account AT SCALE, will rise to the top (which will be Bitcoin). Everything else will either be just another store of value (Gold, Silver), or just another means of exchange (cash, altcoins, barter). Nothing else will be BOTH a SoV AND a MoE AT SCALE, while ALSO being a granular Unit of Account. Only Bitcoin will rise as serving all three in the digital era.
The next thing that I believe NOSTR needs is a native relay feature that allows one on desktop or mobile to be their own relay, and fully backup their events while also serving as network redundancy for other users if they wish.
I would also add that we should soon have the ability to not only choose which relays to follow, but also have information on each relay and to know what their rules are. Users can choose which relays to follow, relays choose which events to propagate.
The beauty of NOSTR when it comes to user adoption and politics is that it replaces:
1. Narratives with Consensus
2. Sensationalism with value-for-value
3. Ideology with open dialogue
4. Fact-checking with community verification
5. Algorithms with user curation
6. Political polarization with political convergence
People using NOSTR begin to act like rational political actors. This can ONLY be possible when the propagation of information and ideas are both decentralized and sovereign.
