Yields! Do all relays validate event signatures?

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*Yikes! Damn autocorrect

I can’t speak for every relay implementation on the planet, but every one that I know of does validate.

Thanks. That’s what I thought. But it is possible for a rogue relay to send out invalid events, so clients need to validate.

Indeed, you got it! I think as clients optimize you’ll see more of them add validation. They all wanted to include it from the beginning but ran in to performance issues.

The most important thing to validate is profile updates since those include LN payment addresses.

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