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. npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m 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 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 npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 or

npub1k86anutkqszjqz8tv4zu9curnqw2p0qz7zfes6zc8fcfdjzgzukslph7gp (comment with others I missed).

Thank you npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 and the #nostr dev team. This place is awesome.

Everyone can get a purple check AND be special.