I agree about signatures.
I think your post was maybe referring to my statement "To trust a self-declared disavowal, you have to trust the *person* behind the master key" ?
What I meant is - suppose a person posts a note that's validly signed by their master key which says:
"My signer key was compromised two weeks ago. Don't trust any notes that were signed by the signer key during the last two weeks, especially the notes saying that I was traveling in Denmark, I did not post these, someone impersonated me!"
Then you have to decide whether or not to trust that the person is telling the truth when they say that that their signer key was compromised and that they did not themselves post the notes saying that they were traveling in Denmark and that someone impersonated them.
That's what makes retroactive disavowals of events *very different* from key revocations. Key revocations are acts that occur at objectively verifiable times, i.e. when they are recorded on-chain. Retroactive disavowals of events are subjective statements that other parties may choose to believe, or not.
npub16x…56z6l
2026-09-18 11:52:41 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…g6yy
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2026-09-18 11:52:41 UTCEvent JSON
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