#[0] Why are you listing nostrverified.com/.well-known/nostr.json as "proofs" of anything? #[1] why don't you list the supposed "proofs" (Twitter posts w/ npub) of people like Saylor?
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Thanks for asking. There are only a handful of cases like that and for the vast majority of the accounts listed in the directory, the ‘Verify’ link indeed points to a tweet containing the person’s pubkey. In cases where no such tweet exists, I look for an alternative such as an identifier linked to a privately owned domain or one issued by an identifier provider that has a reliable verification process in place, as far as I can determine that. Preston Pysh’s NostrVerified.com is one of those providers. I agree that for these cases, the “proof” is not fully verifiable/reliable but the same can be said for most “verification” methods. In the end, it’s important to understand that virtually none of the accounts on Nostr are 100% reliably tied to anyone’s identity, which is great.
The Tweets are as close as we are going to get. I would just maybe offer a suggestion that you note the ones with some other method not publicly & directly connected to a person (e.g., no public Tweet available) with some kind of asterisk so it's clear that they are maybe more questionable than the ones with a Tweet.
Great idea, I will 👍