This is indeed me. keeping a backup npub just in case (and proving it's mine now)
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The kind of going sideways I worry about for this nym is exactly why I don't cross validate identities.
Lol. I meant more like if I were to somehow lose this nsec or have it stolen or something.
I figured the only way to really prove an alt is to pre-validate it; once you really need it it's already too late to prove reliably
I keep my nsec in my password manager so if I lose it nostr is the least of my worries.
As for getting hacked, I don't stick my nsec anywhere but amber and my password manager. Low enough risk, I'll just start over.
Yea I do the same. But I think maybe in week 1 on Nostr I was a little loose with pasting my nsec into clients.. and I have this paranoia in the back of my head that one of those clients was harvesting nsecs of early accounts and will unleash a massive attack in a few years when Nostr is big 😳
You're on a nym so "starting over" isn't as bad for you. Whether or not I have nyms is unknown, but this one is definitely not.
I started before signers were a thing too. Definitely some risk of insider attack from an early client. No opsec is perfect. I have more important holes to plug than that.
If we make a backup to follow your backup we enter a parallel reality.