tyiu on Nostr: I honestly don’t disagree. The point of npub is for humans to use it. Hex is for ...
I honestly don’t disagree. The point of npub is for humans to use it. Hex is for machines. It’s primarily humans who are trying to create their own nostr.json, or NIP-05 providers who do it but need to transform npub to hex. It’s ugly spec-wise, but maybe a middle-ground is to support npub and deprecate (but continue to support) hex in NIP-05.
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