shafemtol on Nostr: Relays shouldn't have to be trusted. It's not really true that you need a full node ...
Relays shouldn't have to be trusted.
It's not really true that you need a full node to verify OTS timestamps, you can use an SPV-like trust model where you just have the Bitcoin block headers and check their POW. The headers are just 80 bytes per block.
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