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2026-10-12 16:53:40 UTC

Matt on Nostr: I wish I'd created my keypair after it was figured out that we could bip39 then and ...

I wish I'd created my keypair after it was figured out that we could bip39 then and store some seed words. I wish I'd created my keypair when this was being implemented.

But I can't. It's too late. I'm several years deep on this key, well invested in to it and unlikely to change it unless there's a compromise.

Great, for new comers, not so great for the rest of us. Such is life.
So there's this nostr paradox, why would a community obsessed with crypto and key security refuse to even test working key rotation?

Because you can't tell working from broken without spending your own time on it.

After enough broken NIPs and abandoned apps, you learn to price every new thing as a lemon and assume broken. The good leaves the market with the bad. 👇

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons