I find the concept of a public/private key pair easy to understand and relate to. In that respect, Nostr works very similarly to Bitcoin.

I agree that leaking the private key can lead to problems. I don’t know if DIDs can solve that. I still don’t even know what DIDs are. I try to read the W3C document, but there is just a lot of technobabble that I feel unable to understand. But I do understand the concept behind private/public key pairs.

The DID proponents cannot expect people to accept and use something that they cannot comprehend. The whole thing feels like they are trying to push some top-down solution, even if that’s not their intention. They should do a better job at explaining themselves. If they cannot explain their scheme in plain language in a few pages, then I am afraid it won’t take off, no matter how “good” their idea is. Satoshi explained Bitcoin in less than ten pages.