This is a great question. Nostr isn't generally anonymous. Your IP can be logged whenever you communicate with a relay. So I assume as soon as someone starts putting drugs on nostr market, relays will begin getting subpoenas.
What are the ways around this? Use a throwaway nostr identity and route all of your questionably-legal nostr activity through Tor?
Maybe we will see no-log nostr relays pop up. You would still be trusting them though, and a relay could be run by law enforcement trying to catch you. So I don't really see any way except using Tor.
Owen G
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2023-11-26 23:53:49
in reply to nevent1q…0473
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2023-11-26 23:53:49Event JSON
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