The concept of keys is really weird to people. I don't think I've seen a single person who understood what is happening when they sign up.
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I am a genius who immediately understood.
Just kidding
Don't get get nothing still
But I know its free(er)
it’s the same with bitcoin
keys jingle, they’re not a long string of numbers and characters
would it be so wrong to call them username / password ?
I love calling it forever username/password, reminding newbies they can never reset this pairing yet can think of keys just like their bank login. 🧠
Why hasn’t anyone done a bip39 for nsecs yet?
I use the term seed phrase for Bitcoin but that doesn’t really apply to Nostr.
What a very interesting idea.🙏😀😄😆
Username and password has a very specific UX for people now. I think this would confuse people because keys should not just be put into a website like basic auth creds.
yeah but how else can we make it more clear "it acts as your username" "it acts as your password" ?
I still don't 😵💫 but I'm here now so I don't have to think about it much
It’s a public & private key pair, same as Bitcoin and PGP lol. It’s not super complex to understand how it works.
But this is what trips everyone up even with bitcoin.
Fair, I guess for some it’s not complex but for others it is. I find the easiest way to boil down the idea is explaining it by using generalized statements, like “it uses complex math to solve a puzzle that spits out a specific pattern”, or something like that when trying to explain to someone how the key pair system works.
