> in lieu of proof of work, or even stake, their sequencers are validated by being included on other nodes' "UNL" s, or "Unique Node Lists", and don't receive fees for mining blocks. Loool. I think you nailed the distinction between Nostr and Bitcoin. Bitcoin must maintain a global consensus, so rules must be objective and embedded in the physics of computation, with PoW. Nostr is and should be fragmented, so it allows for rules that are subjective, like WoT.