Technical Debt on nostr

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Dr. The Daniel 🖖 · 3d

I haven’t followed this discussion too closely for a minute. Does any proposed key rotation method necessitate starting over with a brand new keypair?

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It is optional, but like why wouldn’t you? You can make your new key bless the existing npub, so that your existing posts aren’t lost in the transition, if I understood correctly.

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Dr. The Daniel 🖖 · 3d

That’s what I want to know, but I would still need to get everyone to stop following the old npub and follow the new one, and that’s a lot to ask.

Sorry I've been sleeping through this discussion. So it's like you say, you don't have to abandon your current npub if you don't want to. You can create a new master key and delegate down from it, through a delegation chain, to the npub you already use on nostr. You then keep posting with your cur...