Technically can't find an event even if you have the full ID anyway, because you don't know the relays the event is in. That's why we have nevent1 codes and relay and author hints in tags.
Choosing the relays for each client action is the most important part of Nostr but people have assumed that part away way too many times by hardcoding popular relays and expecting all events to be there, which works as long as we're ridiculously small, but kills the value proposition of Nostr entirely.
It's like assuming Bitcoin will always be zero: it's only true if the entire project is a failure, and in that case nothing matters anyway.
fiatjaf /
npub180…jh6w6
2025-05-08 19:41:11
in reply to nevent1q…nkx5
Author Public Key
npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6Published at
2025-05-08 19:41:11Event JSON
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"content": "Technically can't find an event even if you have the full ID anyway, because you don't know the relays the event is in. That's why we have nevent1 codes and relay and author hints in tags.\n\nChoosing the relays for each client action is the most important part of Nostr but people have assumed that part away way too many times by hardcoding popular relays and expecting all events to be there, which works as long as we're ridiculously small, but kills the value proposition of Nostr entirely.\n\nIt's like assuming Bitcoin will always be zero: it's only true if the entire project is a failure, and in that case nothing matters anyway.",
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