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They're no more of a threat than any non-vanity address would be. I could focus a search on any non-vanity address type if I wanted to impersonate someone else. I'd say this is the best reason for using NIP-05 address to help validate your account.
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daniele 3y ago

Of course tecnically there is not differences between mining a vanity key and a randomn one. But there is a quite important psicological difference in how we consider a recognizable pattern against a random one; we tend to focus the pattern and give it more importance, and so we are more vulnerable to an impersonation attack.

Yes, NIP-05 is a solution with a good UX.

But so, why create a vanity address if is not showed/used?

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oldpatrickulrich 3y ago

Nothing more than vanity of seeing my name in my pubkey versus a completely random string

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Nicolas ₿ ⚡️ 🇦🇷🧉🤙💜 2y ago

Oh sure, i got few with leading 0’ like npub10000000jzysq6vnx2sq7upkjrsv4e38nl2j736yfqwcawu59w5cqjvqn6f but until there is a way to switch to a new key, I won’t use it for now