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Keys are meaningless A common misconception of technologists when they first discover Nostr is to put too much weight on the cryptography and start worshipping the keypairs. Secret keys are just numbers. To some people this will sound amazing, but in fact it is just a little boring. Numbers by themselves don't do anything. A simple computer script can generate a bazillion keys with no effort at all: but does that have any effect in the world? No. The key-focused approach to Nostr is responsible for well-known slogans such as "not your keys, not your notes" or "self-sovereign identity". But the
Keys are meaningless A common misconception of technologists when they first discover Nostr is to put too much weight on the cryptography and start worshipping the keypairs. Secret keys are just numbers. To some people this will sound amazing, but in fact it is just a little boring. Numbers by themselves don't do anything. A simple computer script can generate a bazillion keys with no effort at all: but does that have any effect in the world? No. The key-focused approach to Nostr is responsible for well-known slogans such as "not your keys, not your notes" or "self-sovereign identity". But the
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