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Tarun · 160w
The nostr verification is essentially linking your pubkey to a site that either verifies your identity somewhat (you control both the pubkey and Twitter) or doxxs you at least partially (by linking yo...
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I don't fully agree. A nip-05 identity is like an email address. It allows people to look up your npub based on a [email protected] identifier. That's its primary purpose.

I don't think nostrplebs is doing any sort of verification? I can't find any evidence for them doing that. Perhaps @nostrich was referring to the initial signup where people could contact Derek on Twitter to be able to register an early account? But it seems that at least today anyone can register any username on nostrplebs.com.

Not saying that hodlonaut isn't truly hodlonaut, it's just that in my opinion being nostrplebs "verified" doesn't prove that he is 🙂. The best proof of identity would be the person giving their npub on a site (such as Twitter, although in this case hodlonaut hid/removed his account there) where you know it's them.
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Tarun · 160w
That is interesting. Are you saying the inclusion at some site @domain doesn’t do any real verification? If so, then it would seem that self verification via one’s own site (like GitHub pages) might be of better quality-especially if the GitHub account is well known.