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Could mining vanity npubs turn into intricate impersonation attempts? like my npub is @Tatum Turn Up but it abbreviates to npub1hte85nxymfy:dqg0pn8pxqxasw3d. could someone mine an npub that has a similar abbreviation?

If I’m correct, @Tatum Turn Up and npub1hte85nxymfyxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdqg0pn8pxqxasw3d both abbreviate to npub1hte85nxymfy:dqg0pn8pxqxasw3d

This could be a non-issue. Just thinking about newcomers and non technical people like myself that may overlook actually checking the whole npub

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ben · 149w

Yes, that is a risk

やトナ · 149w

I think this is part of the importance of NIP05 so you don’t need to worry about the Npub

Life is launched directly on the mainnet · 149w

Dumb question: couldn’t be the same with a btc address? If not, couldn’t we use the same system to avoid such a minting?

lucash.dev · 149w

Yes

stephen · 149w

This is true. NIP05 is a step in the right direction but I think DIDs would be better for adoption. Tbh unless you have some form of verification badge for everyone even things like hashing profile images and text analysis of names and bios etc would do more to stop impersonation. Look at how rampan...