Of course there is migrating accounts if your private key gets leaked. You can't have 2 people controlling one account.

Also, the fatal flaw that I'm talking about isn't about how the private key is unchangeable. It is a second order problem that is stemming off this migrating account inevitability.

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Your posts are signed by a specific key. If you start using another key how are you migrating? Recreating and signing with the new key? They'd have different timestamps.

Yes, I meant recreating the profile, but you're right, not everything has a timestamp, and the ones that do will likely get completely messed up during the migration.

I mean, then this problem is worse than I thought. If a hacker gets hold of your private key (not hard, given how rampant malware is and how often Nostr apps ask us to copy-paste private keys everywhere for login), everything you've built is gone. No recovery, and there is nothing you can do to gain control back.

Actually you can have many people controlling an account.

Yes, of course. I meant you wouldn't want to stay in that account.