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Not a silver bullet, its true.

An honest person with a common handle WILL be flagged for attention. That's okay.

Not worried about cases where the scammer is here first - scammers want to steal credibility from existing accounts, this breaks their business model if they have to build followings the hard way
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Matt 1y ago

True. Definitely an edge case.

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Low Information Voter 1y ago 💬 2

I saw some npub claiming to be Linus Torvalds the other day.

My proposal won't fix that.

NIP-05 is supposed to, but its easily gamed since the DNS system has perverse incentives.

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Matt 1y ago

Yeah, DNS was my first thought but that has scammers too. And then recently there was a story about some domains being easily taken. There's no perfect system, but I think certain people swapping npubs IRL also helps. Especially bigger names in a particular circle.

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Matt 1y ago

I think the actual answer will be an imperfect combination of multiple approaches that reduce risk down to very small levels for most people.