Your Nsec is more important than just your private property.
The interoperability to move freely from client to client holds the clients themselves accountable to provide a good experience.
Your freedom of movement is freedom of choice. This creates a free market of competition for all which keeps any clients in check.
Remarkable.
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Some will argue (me) that it will be worth more than a whole coin
some others will argue (me) that it will be worth less than a whole coin for the near-totality of people.
Your nsec provides value to you because of its utility. Your reputation gives your key pair value to others. Some people on here take the reputation part for granted. Portability between client apps means nothing if nobody wants to associate with you. Reputation is your true private key.
How are you gauging reputation? I haven’t seen that much commerce happen here like say a place like eBay where actual transacting customers give feedback reputation. Nostr seems much more open forum for discussion such as bluesky which now even though no commerce happens on the site has a third party reputation profile tagging system - profiles also defined by encryption keys. This means that a chance political discussion can earn a tag that is seen site wide on all your communications from past to future. Would this reputation system based not on commerce but on discussion not just be gamed by people with opposing political views creating an environment that is stagnant and silent since so little actual commerce is actually happening?
I’m just talking about personal reputation that you build over time from interacting with people and being active. I think you’re referring more to a web of trust type scoring system, which there are some people implementing into their nostr clients.
See my second response as I address these points. Yes web of trust is the most important aspect for a working system while reputation is just an opinion that can not be quantized but can be aggrandized.
In an ideal commerce environment reputation would only define trust that this is a real identity and not an impersonation along with a rating on completed transaction for survives or goods. The social reputation distorts this because something like a denial of service attack on a reputation that costs nothing to orchestrate could knock out a competing product or service. This leads to cronyism which might attract the eyes of regulators to such a purported platform engaged in commerce because cronyism distorts prices and stifles competition (maybe not for the apps as OP pointed out but for the users engaged in commerce).
Nostr currently is not engaged in much actual commerce and is more akin to a sponsorship level of monetary exchange. The reputation value for seeking sponsors or subscribers rather than customers are completely different. A customer wants a product and that product to fulfill a need. A subscriber is feeding an addiction. Someone seeking a sponsor is promising value based on how reputation is defined on a social rather than commerce basis.
I don’t know what the fuck you’re getting on about. I’m talking about “do I know who the fuck you are, or do I not, and do I respect you or do I not”. If something is missing to make you feel better about engaging in commerce then please go create it. In the meantime you’ve already annoyed the fuck out of me with these replies and I’m blocking you.
Sorry for annoying you. I was trying to get down some thoughts and observations and not specifically tell you what you are thinking or saying. Your explanation is a lot more focused and specific than what I going on about. So please don’t see my post as me disagreeing with you.
Remarkable 100℅
do you have any advice or resources about how to best save/backup my nsec? is a password manager OK?
Imagine how much better Twitter, insta, Gmail etc would be
How smart is it to connect your 'real face & name' to an nsec?
If you loose it, it would suck, but if it gets stolen someone can pose as you. One mistake/hack.
How to deal with if this happens?
I was just personally musing on this issue earlier; no cert/key revocation possible (?).
All I can think of as option it that you would need to make a video of yourself explaining what happend, post that on your new npub and send it to you followers. And hope AI hasn't gotten that good to fake you with video to make them doubt it.
