1. Impersonations
Who is the real nostr:npub1au23c73cpaq2whtazjf6cdrmvam6nkd4lg928nwmgl78374kn29sq9t53j ?
NO, don't look at the number of followers, it can be faked.
The signal is the line just below that, because follows from people you trust are hard(er) to get
No one cares about zucco you should have picked a better person for your example
wasabi wallet needs to reinvent itself, perhaps with non-custodial decentralized LNS #wasabi nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt
What's LNS again?
Totally agree, Nostr just needs to keep building for what the current users want.
Corporate Open Source is Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNcBk6cwim8
Nobody likes being rugpulled. But lately, it's going around like a virus.
The state of open source landscape is changing. Many projects backed by corporations are changing to "source avaliable" or other such scam license.
It's one thing to be commercial & closed source from the beginning and be honest about it - that's OK. But changing from open source to "source available" is a rug pull.
At least forking is possible - fork the project at a point where it was still opensource and diverge from there. That is why so many forks in OSS are happening lately.
But it is also hypocritical to expect devs to work for free, why would anyone work hard and not get paid?
Especially when a profitable corporation uses your free software to make money.
Exactly we are playing against an adversary with unlimited power, with the ability and motivation to change the rules of the game at anytime.
First rule of privacy is we must not play in their court or try to abide by their owen rules.
It just means profit must be found in a different way.
For example maybe issue an anonymous token, team declares all profit go to buying such a token on a decentralised swaper, anyone can buy such a token, profit goes to the public, anyone can create a pseudo new account and purchase such a token.
Profit doesn't go directly to the team.
Hey #nostr client devs. nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955
Impersonators are popping up on nostr. And it is even easier for them than on twitter. They can easily create 1:1 profile copy with the same icon, banner, posts, reposts.. Number of followers and followed can be easily gamed. Even npub can be vanity generated to have the same beginning and end.
What would help and what can't be easily gamed is to see "followed by these people you follow" in user profiles.
Similarly how twitter does:
This is totally an issue, the solutions I can think of are Reputation and Proof of wealth (proof you own some bitcoin).
I think also there is a nip for pow on each post but that won't be that useful will it?
Why not just say scammers then?