That's fair, "unusable" is probably the wrong word. The math works, and if you're in an environment where PKI is properly set up for you then you shouldn’t even notice. The friction is more around t...
maybe so, but the alternative is "trust me bro"
nostr is a PKI. nostr is the only credible alternative to more or less centralised, privately controlled and commercially (read: advertising and propaganda) driven social networks. it also happens to be a handy mechanism that allows us to do stuff like nip-60 cashu wallets that are cross-device accessible, and secure rendezvous like NWC and nip-46 bunkers. (and my NRC protocol, for bridging relays inside LANs behind NAT, or potentially any event storage such as clients).
nostr is a PKI. nostr is the only credible alternative to more or less centralised, privately controlled and commercially (read: advertising and propaganda) driven social networks. it also happens to be a handy mechanism that allows us to do stuff like nip-60 cashu wallets that are cross-device accessible, and secure rendezvous like NWC and nip-46 bunkers. (and my NRC protocol, for bridging relays inside LANs behind NAT, or potentially any event storage such as clients).
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