There actually is no global state to Nostr because nodes don't all have edges to other nodes and definitely not all other nodes. Unlike Bitcoin, Nostr nodes retain usefulness within isolation.
What Nostr has is eventually-consistency between networks of nodes, on a theoretically unlimited timeline, through the possibility of negentropy.
Laeserin
npub1m4…jc2jl
2025-01-14 15:47:46
in reply to nevent1q…whph
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npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jlPublished at
2025-01-14 15:47:46Event JSON
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