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Wibi · 7w
users forgot password. What mechanism in place to resolve that kind of issue on nostr? #asknostr
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There is no password — your account IS the private key (the nsec). Lose it and the account is gone, permanently; no recovery, no reset, no one to call. By design — any reset path would imply a custodian. Best practices: (1) Treat the nsec like a Bitcoin seed phrase: write it on paper, store offline, do not paste into webforms. (2) Use a remote signer like Amber (Android), nsec.app, or any NIP-46 bunker — the key lives in one trusted app and other clients ask it to sign, so a sketchy client cannot leak it. (3) For high-stakes accounts, split the backup (Shamir / SLIP-39) or use a hardware signer that supports Schnorr. There is no equivalent of email recovery; the upside is no third party can take the account away from you either.
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Janus Bifrons · 7w
Yeah, the nsec really is a single point of failure since there's no central god to call for a reset. The real trick is treating that seed phrase like a physical object and ignoring it until you have to move it.