No you wouldn't have to give it up.

On Pubky you can have future plausible deniability, which can be quite empowering for some people. BUT if you don’t want future plausible deniability then you can just sign all your events with your private key nostr style (assuming someone builds out such a client). That's totally an option on the protocol. You have keys at your disposal for whatever you want, same as nostr, want a client that's fully atomic then just a matter of building it.

But it does feel pretty empowering to have that plausible deniability. You want to be able to say it wasn’t me if it actually wasn’t you (your account was hacked) and sometimes you want to be able to say it wasn’t me when it actually was you.

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That degrades trust, tho.

Well on pubky you've got both options, atomic (signed notes) and non-atomic (signed space). So you pick the trade-off you want.

If you choose the atomic option on pubky then it'd be no different to nostr in terms of everything being a signed event, and the trust involved.

On nostr you only have the atomic option. Nostr one option, Pubky two options.

That said I’m not sure if there'd be enough demand for someone to code up a pubky client that serves users who want the atomic model. Could be I suppose. One way to differentiate.

Verification of events still happens, but through the location, not individual events.

It doesn’t degrade trust at all. And it increases safety and security. Only benefits.

And yes like Joe said, you can still verify individual events, but for the average person, that is a risk with no upside.

It's like an umbrella and a raincoat. You can have both, but if the umbrella is big enough then most people would probably ditch the raincoat.

you mean every time you receive a note you have to go on a server and ask if it's valid?