Ademan on Nostr: Why do nostr events carry their own id? It's derived from the rest of the event, ...
Why do nostr events carry their own id? It's derived from the rest of the event, isn't it?
That's 72 wasted bytes on every event as far as I can tell, which isn't *that* much, but I don't understand why it's there at all.
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2024-06-05 17:32:54Event JSON
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"id": "4bc52979c98a9b89fe875c8357ef679eae598174925f094ae0035b361ded124f",
"pubkey": "2cb30c36438bad4a2a5107bc98f5cebe6a0229b0554d8cfbd1c99aa3cc7ecec1",
"created_at": 1717608774,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [],
"content": "Why do nostr events carry their own id? It's derived from the rest of the event, isn't it?\n\nThat's 72 wasted bytes on every event as far as I can tell, which isn't *that* much, but I don't understand why it's there at all.",
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