Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2024-03-24 01:11:06

semisol on Nostr: why the fuck did we fucking pick secp256k1 for nostr, unperformant as shit, just ...

why the fuck did we fucking pick secp256k1 for nostr, unperformant as shit, just because bitcoin? for fucks sake we have had ed25519 for ages why the fuck do you pick a slower ass curve that is way more obscure

and also why the fuck are all the nostr libraries unoptimized as hell, eating gigabytes of memory when trying to parse a decently sized event file line by line
and the APIs are shit

good fucking night
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