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Ever lost your key? That's like the most important thing it didn't solve.
Ever lost your key?
Sure have
The whole concept of recovery is a problem that seems to have a wide ranging set of opinions depending on who you talk to.
I know many people who think some IT wiz kid should always be able to fix their technical problem if they complain enough. For these individuals I think they will always want identity tied to their person and they don't want to take personal responsibility for their Identity.
Flip side, I want the ability to spin up new identity when needed.
If opinions matter, it means there is no standard, no solution, so you've kind of made my point.
The problem is that keys must be replaced. So your key cannot be your identity. If I get your key then I change your NIP-05 (like some kid did to a custodial LN provider we shall not name) then all your identity would now belong to me.
This is why, not solving identity isn't the same as solving identity. It is the opposite.
For these individuals I think they will always want identity tied to their person and they don't want to take personal responsibility for their Identity.
Which services tied identity to you as a person, as in scanning your eyeball or fingerprint?
Hasn't it mostly been the case that you give a service an email address and password, and then you are responsible for keeping that password safe, or at least access to your email address so you can set a new password in case you forget it?
You didn't have a digital identity before nostr? How did you authorize bitcoin transactions?
You didn't have a digital identity before nostr
It makes it "easier" to spin up a new digital identity then some other options.
How did you authorize bitcoin transactions?
NWC, I would say makes it more user friendly then trying to use BTC keys.
Just my uneducated opinion.
You can automate signing every possible PSBT too... do you want to though? "Come and take all my money"
No, it wasn't this the main goal.
The main goal was some kind exactly opposite to this, so people will be free to post something online without being linked to a verifiable identity or censored.
I personally don't give a shit about my npub, I can create a new one in seconds.
You see, people try to make nostr a copy of twatter, but they are wrong. Nostr is something else than twatter.
On twatter you must build reputation with your verified identity.
On nostr you build a reputation with what you say, independently of a npub. But nostr is more than just posting memes and notes online. Way more bigger than that. And NWC and nostr market is just the beginning.
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