username must be unique.
for display name everyone can be Tony.
Hey, guys, got a noob question I never thought of before: What’s the difference between the Display name and Username? What is username’s use case?
From what I see, username, display name and the prefix of your address can be all different and all of them can be used to tag or search for users. Feels like we’ve got an unnecessary “Name” field. What am I missing?
cc nostr:npub12345lzqap28uj64kx39mrmyru92ulf4tykpzj5mv8j9eleegxwvsw07z2k
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Nostr address has to be unique, but I’m sure you can change your username to Tony right now and nothing will stop you.