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Random thought. What if we built Nostr clients that called public keys as usernames and private keys as passwords. They just need to be guided by the client to store that information in a secure place. That could be an easier onboarding experience for anyone who isn’t tech literate, or has little to no knowledge about public-key cryptography, decentralization, etc. They just want to use an app that solves some problem that they have in a familiar way, without needing to relearn their entire web or app browsing experience that they’ve been used to their entire life.

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Big Barry Bitcoin 1y ago

There is a big difference between a pubkey and a username, and a privkey and password.

For example, you can't pick your own username, you won't be able to recite it to others, users will immediately know it is not a username.

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Gigi 1y ago

This.

People assume you can change a password, and people assume that you're NOT rekt if you forget or leak your password.

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