Replying to Avatar Vincent Vasco

Keep discovering #Nostr and #Primal.

After the messages on the fake account asking for donations for care, I wondered how to spot fake accounts and also multi-accounts that might self-congratulate, for example, to push a product or service.

In terms of Bitcoin knowledge, I'm limited to mining; I accumulate what I can and hodl.

But it seemed to me that the blockchain could also be used to confirm an identity (or a pseudonym). Is this true, and are there any Nostr developers who have created this type of verification ?

I regularly read : "Don't trust, verify"

In short, how do I know if 20 people give advice that it's not actually 20 times the same person with 20 accounts who just wants to convince me or sell me something ?

#asknostr

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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 5mo ago

It doesn't really matter. In places like asknostr, or equivalents like askreddit, you can end up with a herd mentality of parroting bad advice.

Example: Mullvad continues to be widely recommended in VPN discussions across the internet, despite being an obvious honeypot (no port forwarding support).

Even if you could tell the difference between 1 person and 20 people, it doesn't help tell the difference between independent responses and deep state parroting.

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