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 Does Damus have a way to quickly prove you have personally verified an npub?  

Would there be a way for the user to assign a “check mark” of a particular color to a given noun so they can quickly say “yes, that is the real jack or Derek or sathoarder” as opposed to a fake account? 
 No, but I'd actually love the ability be able to assign notes to npubs. These could be personal notes that are encrypted and only decrypted and viewable by the assigning user. It just needs to be one additional field on a a profile. 
 That would be nice.  I’m starting to see several fake accounts… I want to be able to signal to myself, 

“yes, I took some action in the past to ensure this is not a fake account.”


Notes would be nice as well. 
 Please help promote NIP-81 support in clients.

NIP-81 outlines how to do relationship status for a pubkey and can be public and private metadata.  
 This seems to be describing exactly what I'd like to see. 
 There are only two clients that offer related functionality..

Gossip supports pet names, but only in your follow list.

Corny Chat supports relationship pet names for any pubkey.

In both instances you control a label visible for that pubkey in the app and can include symbols. When I do this in Corny Chat I also use a green light/red light model.

 
 Damus displays a purple person icon next to a person’s name if you’re following them