Interesting article.  I have quite a huge amount of respect for Amir having introduced him to bitcoin.  Few people know this but nostr is actually the SECOND attempt to build a social network on top of Bitcoin.  The first was called lorea, and I worked on it with Amir.  Sadly, Amir quit bitcoin, having done some great work, like introducting the BIP system.  It was a full seven years later that the next attempt, nostr, was tried.  And it was pure luck that Jack saw the potential in it, and supported it, or it would have likely gone the way of lorea before.  Cypherpunks, the good ones, are pragmatists.  Satoshi was the master, in that respect.  Write some code to make things a little bit better, and buy yourself a territory of freedom for a few years.  If there could be said to be one value of cypherpunks it would be "dont harm the users", and that simply goes out the window very quickly.  The whole cypherpunk movement today is selective LARPing with fake values.  A real cypherpunk just writes code, makes things better, and tries not to harm the users.  Rinse.  Repeat. 

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 Nostr's success is because it came at the right time.