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shortwavesurfer2009

In a world without names.

You are sitting in the doctor's office and the assistant comes out and says, "npub1ge0tzdqy6useekgu9d9g5l3s3t2wpx7p9xxuprz7ajzjaxl4mgyssejcs3 its your turn"

you write "npub1ge0tzdqy6useekgu9d9g5l3s3t2wpx7p9xxuprz7ajzjaxl4mgyssejcs3" on your homework.

Nobody gives their babies names anymore. They just create a public key for them until they are old enough to handle it themselves.

"have you met npub1ge0tzdqy6useekgu9d9g5l3s3t2wpx7p9xxuprz7ajzjaxl4mgyssejcs3? they went to Yale and have a PhD in astrophysics"

VEN 1y ago

In a way social security and all-caps name are that, without the privacy of course

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shortwavesurfer2009 1y ago

Well, it would not at all be private since notes are public. People would be able to see metadata like you used Uber at 5.27 p.m. But they wouldn't associate a name with it unless of course you doxxed yourself which would be all to easy to do.

shinohai 1y ago

Change to yer pgp public key fingerprint instead, and the public will be *verifiably* public and the private 100% private unless you are a dumbass that generates a < 4096 bit key.

shortwavesurfer2009 1y ago

You know what? I wonder if it would be possible to request a legal name change and change my name to my npub.

shinohai 1y ago

It's precisely like that except you never ever get the private key.