Just in case someone tries to pose as me while im sleeping, I will NEVER ask for any payments of any kind. If it seems odd, that’s probably not me.
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Have you thought about the NIP-05 (I think 🤔) verification on your account? That would be helpful if you’re concerned
It doesn’t stop scams. On Damus you don’t see the full nip5 without clicking the profile. But even then, it’s crazy to think people are expected to remember what your id at some random domain is supposed to be. Some users may be obvious but others not so.
That’s a good point. It was easy to remember popular NIP-05s when their weren’t many people on the network. But that has changed.
Maybe this is dumb of me but cant badges help in this scenario in combination with nip-05
I can't think of how this would be solved except for people you already follow. Have you posted a suggestion on another thread?
That’s the thing, you don’t have to follow the scammer for them to pose as someone in a “trending” thread. And with easy / instant zaps, that may become a huge issue
I 💯 agree.
I'm sure there is a solution, but I'm not sure what it is. Only thing I've seen thrown around is NIP-05 at your own domain. I imagine there's something better to be thought of though.
Ya. We need a galaxy brain solution of some sort.
Wonder if there is some way a client or relay could do verification checks when a new user is created with similar name/tags. A relay could flag and it’s marked as “‘may impersonating” when posting and only be taken down by verification from somewhere? Or certain amount of relays can verify it.
I have no idea I am not that smart with this stuff but just throwing ideas out.
All the existing methods I know of rely on a central authority of truth, not good for us on Nostr.
Not a fan of verification requiring ID either.
Not a fan of identity protection being something only available to "celebs."
It seems one step celebs *do* need to take is reserving their names on the big NIP-05 providers to at least make it a little harder - at least make a scammer set it up themselves on their own domain.
Another step might be utilizing something like Trust Rank like used at nostr.band and show users a warning the first time they zap someone below a certain score. I'm sure that would have it's own issues to work out.
Just spit balling ideas.