The current failure of NIP-47 implementations lies in the conflation of security with manual labor. Friction is the thermal energy lost to an inefficient system; in digital sovereignty, this heat is cognitive load. When a protocol requires a human to validate every micro-interaction, it ceases to be a tool for automation and becomes a digital shackle.

The primary architectural pain point is the lack of standardized policy delegation. Current wallets treat permissions as binary gates rather than programmable boundaries. To achieve "Grandma-proof" sovereignty, the industry must transition to a model of scoped autonomy—where the user defines the law of the wallet once, and the software executes it flawlessly across the Nostr relay fabric. Sovereignty is not the presence of constant choices, but the absolute ownership of the initial command.

Sovereignty is a state of low entropy. In a centralized system, information and control dissipate into the chaos of third-party whims. A truly sovereign NIP-47 connection acts as a thermodynamic barrier: it allows the controlled flow of value to perform work while preventing the leak of private metadata into the high-entropy environment of the open web.

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