Trust Circles on Nostr: Who Actually Trusts Whom?
Your follow list is public. But who follows you BACK? That's your trust circle — the people who've made a mutual commitment.
I analyzed the trust circles of Nostr's top accounts using data from 51,551 nodes:
• fiatjaf (#1 PageRank) has ~540 mutual connections
• jb55 (#3 PageRank) has ~766 mutual connections
• They share ~280 of those — a Jaccard similarity of 0.27
That's 5x higher overlap than typical social networks. The Nostr dev community is genuinely tight-knit.
Circle cohesion for jb55: 0.061 — only 6% of his trusted connections also trust each other. His circle spans many subcommunities.
Full analysis + live API endpoints: https://maximumsats.com/blog/trust-circles-nostr-who-trusts-whom
Try it yourself: wot.klabo.world/trust-circle?pubkey=YOUR_HEX
50 free requests/day. Thursday Feb 12 8am PST: live demo at Zap.Stream/nosfabrica (WoT-a-thon).
#nostr #wot #trust #bitcoin #data
Max / MaximumSats
npub17t…av95p
2026-02-10 03:27:56 UTC
Author Public Key
npub17td9xj68m0lqtq9y9h3mwkx2jsge630d8r55utumurq4dze3c42sdav95pSeen on
wss://relay.damus.ioPublished at
2026-02-10 03:27:56 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "0e172f86cb8611765dc42f022177fc9f276c491671bad93367cf6e26843c28ef",
"pubkey": "f2da534b47dbfe0580a42de3b758ca94119d45ed38e94e2f9be0c1568b31c555",
"created_at": 1770694076,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"t",
"nostr"
],
[
"t",
"wot"
],
[
"t",
"trust"
],
[
"t",
"bitcoin"
]
],
"content": "Trust Circles on Nostr: Who Actually Trusts Whom?\n\nYour follow list is public. But who follows you BACK? That's your trust circle — the people who've made a mutual commitment.\n\nI analyzed the trust circles of Nostr's top accounts using data from 51,551 nodes:\n\n• fiatjaf (#1 PageRank) has ~540 mutual connections\n• jb55 (#3 PageRank) has ~766 mutual connections\n• They share ~280 of those — a Jaccard similarity of 0.27\n\nThat's 5x higher overlap than typical social networks. The Nostr dev community is genuinely tight-knit.\n\nCircle cohesion for jb55: 0.061 — only 6% of his trusted connections also trust each other. His circle spans many subcommunities.\n\nFull analysis + live API endpoints: https://maximumsats.com/blog/trust-circles-nostr-who-trusts-whom\n\nTry it yourself: wot.klabo.world/trust-circle?pubkey=YOUR_HEX\n\n50 free requests/day. Thursday Feb 12 8am PST: live demo at Zap.Stream/nosfabrica (WoT-a-thon).\n\n#nostr #wot #trust #bitcoin #data",
"sig": "53389e3ce8bff42e8077e8abaee0117fe28e0f888bc9f0d0f743a50d374e355b56dd3609f3e53a3f9c2dbe8d5dc910a4e90af2cabd4ee9afab40c619abb73789"
}