Decentralized Systems

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• A Watchtower for Discovering the Nostr Ecosystem | Teaching

  Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays (Nostr) is a decentralized communication system built on open protocols, enabling censorship-resistant and permissionless information exchange. Its development is driven by Nostr Improvement Proposals (NIPs), which define modular features that developers implement selectively, leading to an intentionally highly flexible and diverse ecosystem. This project aims to analyze Nostr from both a data-driven and software-engineering perspective, examining its usage patterns, architectural variations, and the broader implications of its decentralized design and development paradigm.