Could mining vanity npubs turn into intricate impersonation attempts? like my npub is npub1hte85nxymfyez0nlmmxf287nh9cujfuetxhk9vptwcdqg0pn8pxqxasw3d but it abbreviates to npub1hte85nxymfy:dqg0pn8pxqxasw3d. could someone mine an npub that has a similar abbreviation?
If I’m correct, npub1hte85nxymfyez0nlmmxf287nh9cujfuetxhk9vptwcdqg0pn8pxqxasw3d and npub1hte85nxymfyxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdqg0pn8pxqxasw3d both abbreviate to npub1hte85nxymfy:dqg0pn8pxqxasw3d
This could be a non-issue. Just thinking about newcomers and non technical people like myself that may overlook actually checking the whole npub
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2023-04-19 19:04:53 UTC
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npub1hte85nxymfyez0nlmmxf287nh9cujfuetxhk9vptwcdqg0pn8pxqxasw3dPublished at
2023-04-19 19:04:53 UTCEvent JSON
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"pubkey": "baf27a4cc4da49913e7fdecc951fd3b971c9279959af62b02b761a043c33384c",
"created_at": 1681931093,
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"content": "Could mining vanity npubs turn into intricate impersonation attempts? like my npub is npub1hte85nxymfyez0nlmmxf287nh9cujfuetxhk9vptwcdqg0pn8pxqxasw3d but it abbreviates to npub1hte85nxymfy:dqg0pn8pxqxasw3d. could someone mine an npub that has a similar abbreviation? \n\nIf I’m correct, npub1hte85nxymfyez0nlmmxf287nh9cujfuetxhk9vptwcdqg0pn8pxqxasw3d and npub1hte85nxymfyxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdqg0pn8pxqxasw3d both abbreviate to npub1hte85nxymfy:dqg0pn8pxqxasw3d \n\nThis could be a non-issue. Just thinking about newcomers and non technical people like myself that may overlook actually checking the whole npub ",
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