This may be the silliest question of the day.
I joined #primal yesterday and I didn't think much of it but, now I am confused.
What's Nip 5 ?
and
Why do I need to get verified in #nostr?
and lastly...
How do I do that?
Ok it was more than one question....
#nostrfeed #nip5
NIP-05 is like having a friend vouch for who you are. You can either vouch for yourself if you have your own website, or you can ask someone else too. What it does is link up your npub to an easy to read identifier that looks like an email address.
For example, I vouch for myself at my own domain, so I show up as @wisehodl.dev
But before I did that, I used nostrplebs.com and I was wisehodl@nostrplebs.com
In both cases, if you looked up those addresses, you'd get back my npub so you can find me.
Here's an in depth guide:
Thank you so much. Now I know. I guess my website is my voucher.
If you have your own site, that link I sent has some instructions for how to set up a NIP-05 id.
You can see mine in action here. If you can add a file like this to your site, you'll be good to go.
https://wisehodl.dev/.well-known/nostr.json
Where that string next to "_" is the hex version of my npub. You can find that value on clients like nostrudel.ninja . Then in my client, I've set my identity as _@wisehodl.dev
I did it!, 🤗
Thanks a bunch!!
Great questions! I’m too new myself to know how to answer them (I’m curious myself), but maybe someone more tech savvy can help us out! #asknostr
Imagine trying to tell your friends how to find your Nostr account by sharing your npub. It gets clunky really fast.
So instead, what if you could share an email address that's easy to remember, and if they type that into their client, they can easily find and follow you?
That's essential what NIP-05 allows you to do. The site you use for your Nostr identity will translate your address into an npub so that people can easily find you.
It also provides a layer of validation that you either are who you say you are, or you're a real person to begin with (most bots don't bother setting up NIP-05 identities). And most clients will give you a nice little check by your name if you have a valid id.
