Do any clients show bech32 substitutions if an npub/nsec was copied wrong or mistyped? Some people try to login and it says invalid key, we could be using bech32’s error correction capabilities to fix these errors.
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this is a horrible idea, and the reason why it wasn’t done with bitcoin addresses… except…
you could try correcting the error and see if the nsec/npub inputted already exists, and the chance of two npubs being off by only a few bits is low
It was a horrible idea with bitcoin because it could lead to funds getting sent to the void. It is not a horrible idea in the context of nostr.
Yes exactly, your second sentence was what I was thinking. If the profile doesn’t exist you could assume it corrected wrong and not continue with the correction.
Assuming this can work, I imagine some UX where a message and a presumed profile info is presented as "There seems to be a mistake in the pasted input. But could this profile be you?"