Replying to Avatar Max DeMarco

Eastr: A full custodian normie client.

It’s the easiest to join nostr you never touch any keys + login with email and password, same lame social media logins Apple, Google integration (sorry anons this if for normies)

You basically put all your eggs into another man’s basket.

Just gotta trust the Easter bunny to not rugg you. But then after a while you explain funnily and with good storytelling why this is a problem.

With time the user gets older in the app (maybe every week on Eastr is a year in real life or smth) and when turning 13 people don’t believe in the Easter bunny anymore and need to confront the reality of the world.

Some on Eastr. The Easter bunny is not real.. maybe even a risk for your online identity. Maybe he runs rogue? You need to take self responsibility. Then you learn about keys and how to store them. A playful way to make nostr understandable to normies.

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tx0 5mo ago 💬 1

What would it take to psyop NPCs into self custody? How much can NPCs follow instructions? How can instructions be made so simple that NPCs can follow them?

Scammers are able to walk NPCs through many relatively complicated steps. So it should be possible.

Maybe look at scammers play books and reverse engineer the scam process. Find NPCs common sticking points and how the scammers walk the NPCs through the process. The scammers use fake appeals to authority to make NPCs trust and obey them. If the app speaks authoritatively then most NPCs should listen.

Maybe the app can have big scary looking warnings and instructions to follow. "WARNING! YOUR ACCOUNT IS NOT SECURE. ACTIVATE SELF CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY. Prepare to copy your seed phrase. Enter your seed phrase to confirm."

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tx0 5mo ago

It's basically the same process as scams but the seed phrase ends up with the user instead of a scammer. The scammers are motivated by profit to figure out how NPCs work and how to engineer the NPCs actions. There needs to be white hat inverse scammers motivated by moral values to run pro-social psyop-like operations.

Of course everyone thinks they are the good guys following their own morals, even the scammers. The difference is the scammers are actually lying but a pro-social psyop is not lying; your custody account really isn't as secure as self custody.

The scammers go after the self custody seed phrases too but their psyop vectors can be analyzed to find the minimal behavior that NPCs can be taught that can interrupt the scammers process.