It only took me two implementations of my own to notice. Maybe it's because there are so few events out there that clients can afford to just download them all? It never occurred to me before.
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Yeah, I just downloaded everything and filtered locally on Comingle. But that won’t scale. It’s also interesting that we’re forced to use hashes because we can’t make relays query with greater than / less than filters.
Yeah, that was my first impulse, but no. Which I think is ok, it's interesting to see how far we can get with data format design instead of database features.