Nick Sparrow on Nostr: 1. In my opinion, DNMs should start integrating the Nostr protocol. Imagine if the ...
1. In my opinion, DNMs should start integrating the Nostr protocol. Imagine if the next platform is seized: the sellers don't lose their reputation if their reputation is stored on Nostr relay servers. This stuff improves the experience for clients AND sellers. The network can be resilient if this DNM is located on the Nostr relays.
2. I think with the new technologies like AI Agents + Nostr, it is now possible to create a truly resilient autonomous DNM as a living organism. Imagine if special types of agents are running on the VPS servers, whose job is checking for the decentralised DNM relays, being able to spin up new servers and spin up these relays on them. If some relays are shutting down, the agents can spin up the next relays, creating a true healing system, and if the agents have enough balance, they can expand to the next new VPS to create new relays, autonomously, they can pay for servers via crypto.
3. For every order/transaction in this DNM network: before creating an order, you pick a mediator between the client AND the seller. Every mediator will have a reputation (like 4.8/5 and so on). You can manually verify every comment that ppl write when they rank them. You can trust the ppl who used this mediator to trust the mediator. You see the amount of trades this mediator did and the % fee rate from the trade. This stuff eliminates the need to trust one DNM admin like we have now. This stuff will be sovereign and work on the Nostr level.
4. Relays should be hosted on the Tor/I2P networks to keep their IPs hidden.
Yes, what I wrote is sci-fi, and I haven't thought deeply yet about how to implement it. But hey, it's interesting for me what you guys think about it.
I'm sad to see this type of news article when the state again and again sentences some guy who just provides Darknet Marketplaces. Again and again, these guys are jailed and it never stops: new DNMs appear every few days, and this stuff is going in circles.
Published at
2026-10-13 17:54:57 UTCEvent JSON
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