Thanks for sharing. Your key might not be compromised, unless you have noticed that someone controls your account or key and are impersonating you, you could be OK.
There is a technical solution to this called key rotation. I have had to do it once due to a cruel person in the nostr community that stole my key when I was helping someone.
But we can solve the problem so that you can sunset one key and move to another, with limited disruption. We've been able to do this technically for a number of years, the harder part is to get folks to agree on a good way.
In any case, if you start a new key, you can put some text in your profile to show others, which is what I did. This will be solved technically one day, but there's multiple competitng ideas on how to do it, right now.
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key rotation sounds interesting. where can i find more info on this process? would like to start building a nostr presence but not confident in my ability to remain secure.
I love that idea Melvin! Thank you for sharing. I don't want to leave my only public facing profile as I've found quite the family here. I am going to explore this more. Ideally, I keep this one and people can remain confident, moving forward, that it is only my pen/voice/keystroke signing events. But, as many have noted, makes sense to spin up new npubs too as I navigate new security methods. So much has changed in 4 years... I'm relearning/ unlocking a lot of blocked out memories right now. so it's a bit of a struggle to reorient.
It hurts my heart that someone was cruel to you here... you've helped my journey immensely.
