As said, above my head... But from my grug-brain understanding, it should only take 7-8 characters of a Nostr event ID before the chances that there is another event with the same leading characters is slim to none.
That being the case, a Nostr client doesn't really need the whole thing in order to pull up the event, so long as it is searching the right relays for it. If the full event ID is `nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq6z80pwapdkhn6st5d5uxfm5atcl82jzyhdwmurs7q656felnj6xqy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmd9uqzqc8ztkrnk6rnwl6dgznhtvxf6fuhpkja3y2tkuqpvl6uaxekycz5xdhvag,` then clients should only need `1qvzqqqq` to find that specific event, and those characters could be converted to mnemonic words that can be memorized or otherwise hidden in a message. Nostr clients could even support looking up the event using those mnemonic words.
Dikaios1517
npub1ku…v3lhe
2025-05-08 03:51:53
in reply to nevent1q…6hw8
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npub1kun5628raxpm7usdkj62z2337hr77f3ryrg9cf0vjpyf4jvk9r9smv3lhePublished at
2025-05-08 03:51:53Event JSON
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