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The nostr verification is essentially linking your pubkey to a site that either verifies your identity somewhat (you control both the pubkey and Twitter) or doxxs you at least partially (by linking your pubkey to a site you control-like a GitHub pages. Is that a decent understanding of the NIP?
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oisyn 2y ago

I don't fully agree. A nip-05 identity is like an email address. It allows people to look up your npub based on a username@domain.nl identifier. That's its primary purpose.

I don't think nostrplebs is doing any sort of verification? I can't find any evidence for them doing that. Perhaps #[8] was referring to the initial signup where people could contact Derek on Twitter to be able to register an early account? But it seems that at least today anyone can register any username on nostrplebs.com.

Not saying that hodlonaut isn't truly hodlonaut, it's just that in my opinion being nostrplebs "verified" doesn't prove that he is 🙂. The best proof of identity would be the person giving their npub on a site (such as Twitter, although in this case hodlonaut hid/removed his account there) where you know it's them.

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Tarun 2y ago

That is interesting. Are you saying the inclusion at some site @domain doesn’t do any real verification? If so, then it would seem that self verification via one’s own site (like GitHub pages) might be of better quality-especially if the GitHub account is well known.

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oisyn 2y ago

Well, I'm not outright saying that. What I am saying is it doesn't really matter from the point of view from nostr itself - a nostr client just checks whether the nip-05 identity you put in your profile actually points back to your profile, and if it does, it calls you "verified". Nothing else.

Whether you as a person put more weight on a nostrplebs.com identity than on a "free-nostr-identities-for-all.com" identity is purely a social construct.

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oisyn 2y ago

I'd like to point out though that there are now two people in this thread saying nostrplebs.com do verify account and there's a possiblity I'm wrong. I've reached out to Derek on Twitter on their procedure, because I'm geuinely interested and'll happily admit when I'm mistaken 🙂.