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jimbocoin / jimbocoin 🃏
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2024-09-13 20:37:50
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jimbocoin on Nostr: > Currently `strfry sync` will post events it has with regular EVENT messages, and/or ...

> Currently `strfry sync` will post events it has with regular EVENT messages, and/or download events it needs with regular REQ messages.

It’s fine, IMO, that reconciliation is performed out-of-band. A sentence describing what you just said would be fine.

> Maybe we should also describe the Negentropy protocol there?

Whatever the relay is expected to produce should be defined—or at minimum linked to a specification.

Also, IMO, sending hex strings of binary seems to be both inefficient and against the Nostr ethos of legible messages/events. If you’re sending binary, base64 only inflates by 33% compared to hex strings’ 100%.

Personally, I’d prefer to see the message format specified explicitly as debuggable JSON, if feasible.
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