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I've finally decided to get my hands dirty and look into Nostr.

I learned something interesting that I thought might be useful to others.

A domain can be used to validate user accounts. This is done in practice by creating a file called "nostr.json", populating it with a list of usernames and their public keys (in hex format), and making it reachable at https://{domain}/.well-known/nostr.json

For more detailed instructions, see: https://nostr.how/en/guides/get-verified

The syntax of the nostr.json file is:

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{
    "names": {
        "YOUR_NOSTR_NAME1": "YOUR_NOSTR_PUBLIC_KEY_HEX1",
        "YOUR_NOSTR_NAME2": "YOUR_NOSTR_PUBLIC_KEY_HEX2"
    }
}


  

This file can be presented via nginx with a block such as this one:

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    location = /.well-known/nostr.json {
     alias /path/to/nostr.json;
     add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
     }

  

Here is the list of mander.xyz: https://mander.xyz/.well-known/nostr.json

And here is an example of a large list: https://nos