diff --git a/src/controllers/api/accounts.ts b/src/controllers/api/accounts.ts
index 50c7d140..b3c75ae5 100644
--- a/src/controllers/api/accounts.ts
+++ b/src/controllers/api/accounts.ts
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ const verifyCredentialsController: AppController = async (c) => {
 
   const store = await Storages.db();
 
-  const [author, [settingsEvent], [captcha]] = await Promise.all([
+  const [author, [settingsEvent]] = await Promise.all([
     getAuthor(pubkey, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(5000) }),
 
     store.query([{
@@ -60,15 +60,6 @@ const verifyCredentialsController: AppController = async (c) => {
       '#d': ['pub.ditto.pleroma_settings_store'],
       limit: 1,
     }]),
-
-    store.query([{
-      kinds: [1985],
-      authors: [Conf.pubkey],
-      '#L': ['pub.ditto.captcha'],
-      '#l': ['solved'],
-      '#p': [pubkey],
-      limit: 1,
-    }]),
   ]);
 
   let settingsStore: Record<string, unknown> | undefined;
@@ -79,8 +70,8 @@ const verifyCredentialsController: AppController = async (c) => {
   }
 
   const account = author
-    ? await renderAccount(author, { withSource: true, settingsStore, captcha })
-    : await accountFromPubkey(pubkey, { withSource: true, settingsStore, captcha });
+    ? await renderAccount(author, { withSource: true, settingsStore })
+    : await accountFromPubkey(pubkey, { withSource: true, settingsStore });
 
   return c.json(account);
 };
@@ -285,7 +276,6 @@ const updateCredentialsController: AppController = async (c) => {
   const pubkey = await signer.getPublicKey();
   const body = await parseBody(c.req.raw);
   const result = updateCredentialsSchema.safeParse(body);
-  const store = await Storages.db();
 
   if (!result.success) {
     return c.json(result.error, 422);
@@ -335,17 +325,8 @@ const updateCredentialsController: AppController = async (c) => {
     c,
   );
 
-  const [captcha] = await store.query([{
-    kinds: [1985],
-    authors: [Conf.pubkey],
-    '#L': ['pub.ditto.captcha'],
-    '#l': ['solved'],
-    '#p': [pubkey],
-    limit: 1,
-  }]);
-
   const settingsStore = result.data.pleroma_settings_store;
-  const account = await renderAccount(event, { withSource: true, settingsStore, captcha });
+  const account = await renderAccount(event, { withSource: true, settingsStore });
 
   if (settingsStore) {
     await createEvent({
diff --git a/src/controllers/api/captcha.ts b/src/controllers/api/captcha.ts
index ef266745..1bb92118 100644
--- a/src/controllers/api/captcha.ts
+++ b/src/controllers/api/captcha.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { z } from 'zod';
 
 import { AppController } from '@/app.ts';
 import { Conf } from '@/config.ts';
-import { createAdminEvent } from '@/utils/api.ts';
+import { updateUser } from '@/utils/api.ts';
 
 interface Point {
   x: number;
@@ -169,16 +169,7 @@ export const captchaVerifyController: AppController = async (c) => {
 
   if (solved) {
     captchas.delete(id);
-
-    await createAdminEvent({
-      kind: 1985,
-      tags: [
-        ['L', 'pub.ditto.captcha'],
-        ['l', 'solved', 'pub.ditto.captcha'],
-        ['p', pubkey, Conf.relay],
-      ],
-    }, c);
-
+    await updateUser(pubkey, { captcha_solved: true }, c);
     return new Response(null, { status: 204 });
   }
 
diff --git a/src/utils/api.ts b/src/utils/api.ts
index c6d3c6b6..e7766979 100644
--- a/src/utils/api.ts
+++ b/src/utils/api.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { Context } from '@hono/hono';
+import { type Context } from '@hono/hono';
 import { HTTPException } from '@hono/hono/http-exception';
 import { NostrEvent, NostrFilter } from '@nostrify/nostrify';
 import Debug from '@soapbox/stickynotes/debug';
diff --git a/src/views/mastodon/accounts.ts b/src/views/mastodon/accounts.ts
index 83bd705d..626203b8 100644
--- a/src/views/mastodon/accounts.ts
+++ b/src/views/mastodon/accounts.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { type NostrEvent, NSchema as n } from '@nostrify/nostrify';
+import { NSchema as n } from '@nostrify/nostrify';
 import { escape } from 'entities';
 import { nip19, UnsignedEvent } from 'nostr-tools';
 
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import { renderEmojis } from '@/views/mastodon/emojis.ts';
 type ToAccountOpts = {
   withSource: true;
   settingsStore: Record<string, unknown> | undefined;
-  captcha: NostrEvent | undefined;
 } | {
   withSource?: false;
 };
@@ -91,7 +90,7 @@ async function renderAccount(
           nip05,
         },
         ditto: {
-          captcha_solved: Boolean(opts.captcha),
+          captcha_solved: names.has('captcha_solved'),
         },
       }
       : undefined,