diff --git a/163.md b/163.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..95755f84 --- /dev/null +++ b/163.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +NIP-163 (DRAFT) +====== + +`Identicon Sentinel` visual profile hash sentinel for spotting spoofs +------------------------------------------ + +`draft` `optional` + +Spoofing accounts on any platorm is faily easy using a profile picture, banner image and similiar NIP05. + +`Identicon Sentinel` creates an identicon of an npub using https://github.com/laurentpayot/minidenticons, to sit alongside a profile image - to be used as a visual aid for users to easily spot spoof accounts. + +Interopibilty is key by all using the same identicon library. https://github.com/laurentpayot/minidenticons is excellent, especially for smaller sentinel identicons. + +Minidenticons can be easily experimented with here, just pop in an npub https://laurentpayot.github.io/minidenticons + +Using minidenticons Ben Arc's Identicon Sentinel in a nostr client would look something like this: