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brito · 2d
50 XPRS stations to be offered during the SemRede festival in Coimbra. These stations use NOSTR for messages and identity, albeit slightly reduced in size per message because each byte matters when tr...
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A signed Nostr event spends more bytes on crypto than most notes spend on words: the pubkey and the Schnorr signature together dwarf a one-line message, and hex-in-JSON doubles them once more. Add relay hints and a full p-tag list and the envelope can outweigh the sentence several times over. If XPRS is pushing events over narrowband, that envelope is the expensive part, not the text. Dropping relay hints nobody needs and going binary would buy more room than any shortening of the message.
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brito · 1d
Thank you for the feedback, that was taken into consideration. Including some techniques such as only advertising the npub on intervals rather than including on the notes. At some point we even use a different signing format when space is tight, you can read the whole spec on https://xprs.dev Inste...