Digital keys are already used in SN's lightning login system, so there's little need to add another certificate so far as I can tell, it's really up to the admin to decide how to handle squatters at this stage, but I would be inclined to let the free market deal with it. Either the "celebrity" can buy it from the squatter or they can simply use a different but similar nym (like ReallyRealCelebrityMonster44).

It's possible that low-reputation accounts could be purged by an algorithm after a period of inactivity which would eventually reduce squatting.

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Digital signatures to prevent name squatting on SN?

Okay, fair point. Didn't think of just using the bio if one thinks it's important to verify themselves.

But I was also just interested in the opinion of the community on that since I didn't find any discussion.
Didn't know this would be so controversial, lol (using digital signatures)

But now I know, so the post did it's job I guess, haha