So I have been thinking lately, and I'm pretty confident at this point that a relatively private overlay protocol can be done on top of Nostr for people in dangerous situations. It would not be cleanly interoperable with conventional users.
I wonder what effect federated bonds would have in the world of scientific research. Bond some portion of research grants and timelock them. Path A, researcher can claim funds after timelock. Path B, funds can be claimed by oracles and paid out to anyone proving research fraud.
What is the answer to the increasing tribalism and desire to simply reinforce biases? Circulating truthful information is an important piece of the answer, but people need to be willing to absorb it.
Thought experiment: how would you design a communication system assuming that everyone has internet access, and the ability to introduce people into the system out of band offline, in a way that protected metadata revealing the systems users social graph of interactions?
