Oddbean new post about login | logout I guess nearly no one will safe the Nsec like a Seephrase. If i would do so i must now grab my hardware wallet / signer to sign this message. Who would do this? If you would lost your nsec a other person can steal your identity. But i think it´ll ne easier to get your identity back as it would be to get your sats back. You can just grab a new nsec and kind of rebuild your identity, but your sats will be gone forever. Or at least someone else will hold them. But the technic is already existing: https://shop.lnbits.com/product/remote-nostr-signing-device And in the feature it may be neccesary for companys or politions. But i think we´ll become a technic to do this with our phones. For example with our biometric functions.
I try to keep my nsec safe, just like my seed phrase. I know you can easily make another one, but at least people will know it's really you with the old account. And i didn't know about this device. Will check it out! Thanks for responding
But isn´t it then like a hot wallet? I mean you use it on your pc or phone online. But to be honest i don´t really have a deep knowledge of how nostr works in the background. But for example primal could see my nsec, or not? You´re right because of the identity. But it would be way easier to proof that your old npub isn´t under your control anymore and your new npub is yours. I mean if you meet your friends in person you can just tell them that your nsec was stolen and didn´t belong to you anymore. It would still suck, but with bitcoin you couldn´t proof that the sats are yours if your seeds are stolen. So your sats will be gone forever. And on the other hand you´ll use your seeds, or your hardware wallet maybe once a month or something like that, because you´ll use a second bitcoin layer for your daily use. On nostr even know i sync messages, don´t know, 20-30 times a day. In a few years i guess i´ll sign even way more. So it wouldn´t be useful to sign it with a hardware wallet every time.