keychat on Nostr: From our perspective, the two most important design choices in Nostr are: first, it ...
From our perspective, the two most important design choices in Nostr are: first, it boldly allows users to use public keys directly as IDs; second, it has chosen a relay model (neither federated nor peer-to-peer) in which relays do not communicate with each other.
These two aspects are not biased towards a public social network and are equally applicable to private chat apps.
A common misconception in the Nostr community is that Nostr is not suitable for private things. note1qrm…frju
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2025-04-17 15:06:12Event JSON
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