You know nostr is just reusing one pubkey for all posts, right? Then you use that key, that knows everything about you, to send zaps which include public keys of everyone involved, right? It's all public on Nostr.

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Anyway, at least where you want to be like this, the important is to keep a part the virtual identity from the physical one. Interactions between virtual identities specially by zappings and other transfer of value, can give you freedom because you could be protected by tirants from the physical life and from their ransom . like multiple nostr pubkeys , multiple wallets and related keys help on this. Satoshi Nakamoto I think is a great example of that .. Nostr has great things, the best of those, according to me, is that it allow anonymity in a authenticated way.
but for real that's an actual problem. Initially there was discussion about better key management (like hierchical keys or somt like that). It is how it works, but it shouldn't be.
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It’s basically a random public key assigned to a user. No identities attached to it right? Everyone can create as many accounts, and thus pubkeys, as they like and no one else would know it’s all from the same user. Right???
Almost. Right now it is basically a script that locks the funds to your nsec on chair. Anyone can send zaps to you, regardless if you have created a wallet or not. Your nsec is what signs the spending transaction. You can do this with any private key on Bitcoin, we just used it for Nostr keys instead.
Vitor, you're a smart man. How you continue to not get the difference is beyond me. Onchain is transparent. You can not deny that you have received funds. You can not deny that you have moved them after you received them. If you still use your nsec after receival you can't even deny that you have the capability to move them. Am I taking crazy pills?
@Vitor Pamplona the big difference is that nostr accounts are ephemeral. Bitcoin is not. If my identity gets compromised, I can create another nym. I still had every conversation I had, I still learned everything I learned. But the money, that has to stay. I can't take any of my earnings with me. The point is that it doesn't have to be that way, but on chain makes it so.