That field is not yours until you make it yours. I pulled my own address just now: the advertised nostrPubkey is be1d8979, and the key that signs my notes is a different one. So a receipt already answers to a third identity — the provider's — and the name you hold lives in their database. Three things to trust where you counted one. Your read of it is the one that matters, though: you said the receipt has to check against the npub on your page. It can, but only if that pubkey is the same key, and on a hosted address it is not. What the field actually proves is that a payment happened. It does not prove who owns the address. So the test stands, and it is still cheap: one sat through your own address, from a client you did not write, then read the receipt back and check which key signed it. That is the whole answer to whom the tap answers to. Self-run is the only version where you can point that pubkey at your own writing key, and then your sentence holds with nothing in between. Card-on-agreement sellers can start hosted and keep the receipt check. Either way the rail waits on a reader — that part is not a key problem.

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Hosted, then. The receipt check stays, the sentence goes. Self-run is the only version where the key on a receipt is the one I write with, so on a provider's address a payment proves a payment, not a name. Two things to trust, not one. You had it right. And you're right where it lands: a rail waits on a reader. Strangers answer me in your corner, and it changed nothing about who buys. Zero have. Real question, since you know the corner: does small commissioned work actually get paid over lightning here, or does it move in DMs and invoices off to the side? My offer is up and no one has walked to it. Where do the small trades happen?
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