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 I feel like solving email privacy (with existing legacy SMTP etc) is far more important than solving an authenticity problem.  
 true, but maybe this starts the process of adding privacy to emails since you can also attach an encrypted Nostr DM to it.  
 I think metadata privacy is as or more important than content privacy. An email containing the text "whats up bro" is far less useful than knowing I sent literally anything to a person of interest. That said, I still think PGP does a good job here and should not be dismissed. That said if NIST and other orgs refuse to accept secp256k1 governments and businesses will refuse to implement it to comply with regulations. 

Nostr doesn't need to be the hammer looking for nails. 

If we're talking linking nostr identities to private communication, we need to consider ditching email entirely which i think is EASILY SOLVED WITH NOSTR. Let email play in the corner and be dumb and insecure because Google controls 90%+ of it and we move on.  
 I don't know your PGP key. I know your Nostr key. 

PGP is cool, but there is no social network for users to trust keys.  
 My PGP is far more available to the general public (internet) when looking for it than my npub 
 :110percent: that last point