In the Blue Bird app, you have to pay for a blue check. If I recall correctly, in the old days, it was very expensive and you had to send in a picture of your driver's license. #[0] could maybe fill us in since I can't find the details.

I remember in 2014 William Shatner complaining about just anyone getting verified. Verification was supposed to be for big celebrities in his eyes.

The problem with this is the central-authority model. Who determine who qualifies? Who polices?

I get why they did it back then, but the #nostr solution is so elegant, so beautiful, it's beyond brilliant. It's giga-brilliant. Namely...

Let the users verify themselves.

Either by using their own domains (brilliant, brilliant, brilliant) or by using a trusted third party NostrPlebs by #[2] or

#[3] (add your comments for others I missed).

Thank you #[4] and the #nostr dev team. This plan is awesome.

Also, purple rocks.