Time to #asknostr

I'm working on a txt reference document that I expect to be shared around parts of the community.

Is there an easy way to authenticate it using #nostr and have those interested easily check the authenticity without any other keyshare or infrastructure?

I don't care if others update it and share their version, but I do want a way to say which versions have my official blessing.

I plan to update regularly based on feedback.

I have no interest in building a website for it, just a TXT document for others to spread at will.

I don't want to mess with git or another centralized version control. Just a new plaintext doc for each revision.

It will be long, my current outline is 60 lines.

It is by my nym, not me.

My first thought is just to share a rev# and hash as a simple note when it changes.

Any services like nostr.build support txt files?

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You are overthinking it. Git is the right tool for this. I presume you (and people who are following your work) also would like to track the changes you make. And just because you host a Git repo somewhere centralised, doesn't mean Git itself is centralised. A commit in a Git repo is uniquely identifiable, and impossible to modify without letting everyone with a copy know that it has been updated. And in that case, the other copies can be used to restore the original. It is in fact quite a bit like the Bitcoin.

I know I'm possibly being unreasonable. I want what I want. Wasn't there an effort to build git on nostr?