For me the value Nostr brings is the minimalistic signed message format. That is all you need for reducing miss information and safe broadcast. In non-dystopic world standard relays can work as designed in heavy adversarial environments you can transport messages in almost any way (eg. Sending them via email) and preserve trust with metadata.
As @gsovereignty said in his recent pod, “nostr is the emergent property of Bitcoin”. It grasps the essence beautifully.
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