There was a human verification project a year or so ago which seems to have dropped off but I reckon that will be the path - meatspace verification in small numbers to form a web of trust.
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Would be cool if clients started showing a "on Nostr since 773,424" which would then let us know which account came first.
Great idea in the short term, probably unworkable in the long term with how easy it is to spin up new keys - 1/2/3 years from now accounts created in the past could be switched over to spoof newer entrants so only really works for existing Nostriches
Good point indeed. With the Nostur client it shows a "previously known as" once a user changes their name. Would be nice if there was a historical record stored on relays that could be inspected at a later date. Might help with poaching older keypairs for spoofing dates, if it can be seen that the name change came afterwards.