The only time I do now is if the person is introduced by someone already here as someone they personally know or personally onboarded to Nostr. And even then it’s sparingly. It is fun to demonstrate how things work, but it absolutely sets unrealistic expectations and encourages scammers to do their thing. A simple “hello, welcome” is cordial enough. lol
They deleted the username and pfp. That’s the npub that WhyBitcoinOnly shared in his X post on the right. He included a screenshot of it while it was still using Renato’s name and pfp. You can also see Bellatrix’s reply on the left referring to it as Renato. Also I personally saw it before they deleted the profile info and other users were sharing it.
https://image.nostr.build/a5848cae949dacb54bf55537587382d94abf156cba69c5d7d8b6a31d8e2e1d43.jpg
Depends how technical you want to get, because technically all npubs already exist, they just haven’t been discovered and used to sign an event yet. 😂 But in practice, clicking through to someone’s profile to see if they’re new and what they’ve been posting is probably sufficient. If they’re claiming to be someone high profile, always best to try to verify that it’s truly them.
🤝 It’s not a new thing, unfortunately. It’s an easy target for a scammer trying to harvest a few sats from users who just want to be generous and welcoming. My approach now is to say hello and welcome new people if I see their posts, and if they’re posting something I enjoy then I’ll zap that post for the content. And if they claim to be someone high profile then I give a little more attention to try and verify if they’re actually that person.
Hand in hand with our attention, or to what/whom we direct our time. Nostr is a revolution against the digital monopolies that pillage our time and attention for their own gain. ✊💜
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