In the future, losing an nsec could be worse than losing the keys to your bitcoin.
When losing the keys to your bitcoin, you only lose the bitcoin associated with those keys, when losing your sec, you could end up losing your whole identity and all of its history.
Has anybody thought about this?
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the chances that you can't find someone who knows you are pretty slim, when recovering from this. once it is clear to everyone you aren't lying, the old stuff is still your history. it still exists. and it's also why i was a bit hesitant to agree that old, dead npubs should be purged.
they might be the history of active npubs that were lost. they often will have some kind of currency still.
The problem is knowing that you cannot move forward with a particular nsec because you know that nsec is compromised. All activity after the compromise-event will be some bad actor abusing your identity.
I suppose you could post a note saying something like, "all posts from this note are compromised, ignore this npub, and start following this npub".
Maybe you could somehow link a new nsec/npub to a your old one up to a specific date to preserve legitimate history.
I guess we can still "hard fork" nsec/npub specs 🙂
