I'm with nielliesmons (npub149p…722q) here; a bad solution is worse than no solution and NIP-05 is not good for "verifying" for the reason you mentioned; domain-typo "spoofing" would be even bigger if nostr became successful and this were a part of how we get rid of impersonators.
NIP-05 is ONLY good (but it's a very important thing) as a human-friendly pointer to an npub ("my nip-05 is [email protected]").
WoT gets us 99.9% there wrt knowing who's the "real" because even "real" here is subjective. (Pablo for some people here might be me and for other people someone else entirely and both are real)
Where I do disagree with Niel is that using just the last six digits of the pubkey to uniquely color the profile is not good; it's a neat trick but six characters are way too easy to mine, would make more sense to do the average or some other simple arithmetic op over the last, say, 24 digits.
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npub1l2v…ajft
2024-06-25 00:24:48
in reply to nevent1q…lnpe
Author Public Key
npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajftPublished at
2024-06-25 00:24:48Event JSON
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"content": "I'm with nostr:npub149p5act9a5qm9p47elp8w8h3wpwn2d7s2xecw2ygnrxqp4wgsklq9g722q here; a bad solution is worse than no solution and NIP-05 is not good for \"verifying\" for the reason you mentioned; domain-typo \"spoofing\" would be even bigger if nostr became successful and this were a part of how we get rid of impersonators.\n\nNIP-05 is ONLY good (but it's a very important thing) as a human-friendly pointer to an npub (\"my nip-05 is [email protected]\").\n\nWoT gets us 99.9% there wrt knowing who's the \"real\" because even \"real\" here is subjective. (Pablo for some people here might be me and for other people someone else entirely and both are real)\n\nWhere I do disagree with Niel is that using just the last six digits of the pubkey to uniquely color the profile is not good; it's a neat trick but six characters are way too easy to mine, would make more sense to do the average or some other simple arithmetic op over the last, say, 24 digits.\n",
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