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#gm #pv my Nostriches. I have a Nostr development question this morning.

When storing nostr public keys in a database should I use the npub or the hex?

also is this missing any hashtags for a question like this? I'm gonna have more and want them to end up in the right place.

#asknostr #plebchain #grownostr
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PABLOF7z 1y ago

I always use hex for everything humans don’t need to interact with; bech32 is just more-human encoding but ultimately you want things in hex

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Ian 1y ago

So if building a rest API I would only accept hex keys as the 'id' in a GET request not the npub?

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PABLOF7z 1y ago

Probably, but the question the is, why are you building a REST API?

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Ian 1y ago

Hahahaha Fair question

Nostr won't be the only way to access data. Mainly for visualization And backend admin tool