The layers part Jeff keeps mentioning is fascinating and keystone. Regarding protocols, Bitcoin and Nostr. Layers. Build in layers. Keep the original, base, layer 1, primera. Build the socio-cultural diversity on top of. Do not threaten the essence. Build on the longest running no-nonsence mathematically checked or cryptographically verified and not conned.

Seems similar to the keystone concept of edge and edge effect in permaculture, which, itself, i suppose is based on the ecological or biological "edge effect". There are various edges--from the bio-physical to the cultural--our cultivated ecologies or cultivated ecosystems we build and inhabit. David Bennett's "Bitcoin and..." lives generously somewhere along this fertile edge or continuum as he delves in that which is beyond Bitcoin, the and... portion of his podcast name and radio signature ID. It is like the "and Other Stuff" part of Nostr which is increasingly being explored and shared within the Nostr ecosystem, or would it be better called ecotone--maybe something the dear late Stephen Harrod Buhner may have left me in inspiration, glowing ember-like still in me to try and see differently, more amply.

Thank you for this.