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 Perhaps a similar effect to the halving could take place albeit with the proliferation of what this protocol is used for, and in the opposite way, it will become more and more widespread. Obviously it’s different in many ways to blockchain and mining doesn’t have to take place in order for this protocol to work, but  I  must admit I haven’t studied it in depth but from things I have heard on podcasts and YouTube videos it’s kind of one potential future layer of the internet that’s much more decentralized. So in one boat we have our decentralized hard money, and in another we have a communications protocol that can be utilized for everything from social media as it is now to even medical records systems that will compete with the monopolized electronic medical record formats. Bit of a complex subject but I think the potential lies in it being utilized to build a more sovereign internet layer with free market versions of any website people utilize regularly. A NOSTR version of Ebay, a NOSTR version of your favorite news website. ( I don’t know much but that’s kind of what I’ve picked up by listening to some podcasts). With the ability to run a relay on off the shelf easily available hardware it will be easy to disrupt  some of the monopolies out there.