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@ Dikaios1517
2025-06-04 03:28:55
You've got a couple things going on here.
As nostr:npub1qqqqqqz7nhdqz3uuwmzlflxt46lyu7zkuqhcapddhgz66c4ddynswreecw mentioned, your npub stays the same no matter what else you set up on your profile. You can change your display name, change your Nostr address, change your Lightning address, and change your bio information all you want and your npub will still be what it is now. It's like a unique fingerprint for finding your notes.
That said, it's not exactly something people can easily type in when trying to find you. They could try searching for your display name, but there might be a lot of Neals out there in the Nostrverse. They are just as likely to find another Neal as they are to find you that way.
To make it easier to find the correct npub without having to type it in, Nostr addresses were created. This is a way to register your npub with a particular domain. That way, someone doesn't have to know your npub. They can instead search for [name]@[domain.com], which is much easier to write down for someone, or to remember. When this search is performed, the Nostr app reaches out to that domain and effectively asks, "Hey, do you have a 'ModernChains' registered with you, and if so please give me their npub." There can only be one "ModernChains" registered with a given domain, so the Nostr app will only get one npub back as a response. The Nostr app will then check that Nostr profile and confirm that the Nostr address matches the domain it reached out to. If it does, it will be displayed in the search results to the user. This sort of address, defined in NIP-05, is what you got from nostrplebs.com.
The next thing is a lightning address. This is completely separate from a Nostr address and is used for receiving sats on the Lightning network, utilized on Nostr for zaps, which you are likely well aware of, given that you have been sending and receiving zaps.
Here's where things can become a bit confusing. Both of these addresses (Nostr and Lightning) can be the same. Nostrplebs allows you to use your Nostr address with them as a Lightning address by forwarding any Lightning related requests to a different Lightning address you give them. For instance, my nostrplebs address forwards to my coinos.io Lightning address at the moment. Primal, on the other hand, has their own Lightning wallet. So you can use your primal.net address both for receiving zaps to your Primal wallet AND as a Nostr address to make it easy for others to find you on Nostr. However, Primal does not allow you to forward zaps sent to your Primal address to a different Lightning wallet.
Now, you are probably still registered with nostrplebs.com, even though you have updated your profile to use your Primal address. However, you can only have one of them active on your profile at a time. If there was a monthly subscription required for nostrplebs, I might suggest you make sure you cancel it if you have decided to use your Primal address, but they're a one-time cost to register, so it doesn't make any difference.