Reposting from a reply…

It took me a while to grok #nostr- for the longest time the internet was viewed as being a better newspaper, then someone started to figure out how to pass structured data on that ‘newspaper layer’ and the rest is history.

The current web was great (still great) but it wasn’t yet everything we needed. People have been saying that we’ve been missing an ‘identity’ or ‘trust’ layer. I agreed kinda, but the penny dropped for me with #nostr is that we were missing a ‘socioeconomic layer’ - it’s not about trust/identity but the abilities to independently attribute and transact. Trust and economics is then built on those combined abilities.