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This is why NIP-05 is so important and a powerful tool. @npub1pd4d...vu6l sent me a DM asking if I'd be interested in advocating
Bittensor
Internet-scale machine learning
 for them. I asked them to verify their NOSTR account either with a domain hosted NIP-05, which I describe how to setup here:
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NOSTR Identity and Lightning address yourname@yourdomain - mike
Setting a Lightning address and NIP-05 to be <yourname>@<yourdomain>
 Or verify by email from their official domain. They fabricated an email and tried to pass it off as genuine šŸ˜‚ This is the original DM and the mail header which contains the
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 fake mail header service:
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An interesting ethical dilemma. I posted yesterday about a scam account that made contact with me: View quoted note ā†’ I noticed the account is still posting today. If this were a centralised platform, I would report the account and forget about it. But on NOSTR there is no central authority. I am tempted to post replies to each message they post linking to my scam alert post, but this would be nearly impossible to maintain in the long term. I took the time and effort, and have the technical capabilities to verify a person, but not everybody does. In this decentralised world, scammers are free to scam unimpeded, bar the few kickbacks they get from people like me. I was theoretically comfortable with this concept until this event. Now Iā€™m not sure how I feel?