mleku on Nostr: that's precisely how the serials work, it's a single counter that you ask for a new ...

that's precisely how the serials work, it's a single counter that you ask for a new one that is never given to more than one caller at a time so it is conflict free and very compact

needing to do the encoding with hex is because that's what the codec already expects to find in the pubkey field, the tags in fact are getting double that benefit because they are encoded in ascii text

just have to do a step after fetching the event to decode it, then substitute the relevant values to match the ones found in the index and then it can be marshaled to the wire format, or compared for a search