Nostr Web Client

A simplified version of the idea requires not choosing the 5 people beforehand, but instead relying on people that you followed before the key was compromised.

Unfortunately this doesn't work immediately because the attacker can publish backdated events changing your follow list. But I think some gimmicks can be made so this will work too, with a little bit of ambiguity and trust in relays, maybe.

Josua Schmid 2y ago

Backdating events is also the problem of predesignated successor accounts (what I called canaries).

Did you ever think about how timestamping could work in nostr?

I imagine doing this right is not so easy (after all this is what Bitcoin solved).

But maybe there is more pragmatic solution which would work well enough? For example we two can both agree now, that all events referenced in this thread happened one after another.

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Josua Schmid 2y ago

Each event could include a „suggested successor pubkey“ like the suggested relay. Increased occurrence in events referenced by friends would increase credibility of time order.