Replying to Avatar Anthony Accioly

Sir, "Most relays" ≠ "all relays". 64KB Max for a JSON payload is too small for 2025 standards. Plenty of folks have large lists on Nostr (and not only follow lists). "This isn’t a bug, it’s a feature" isn’t a great answer to this one if we want Nostr to grow. I had over 3k connections myself on most social media networks other than Nostr and Fedi, and I'm no social butterfly. We need a proper encryption scheme for payloads over 64 KB, assuming NIP-44 can’t already handle this.
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Danny, the cyber guy 3mo ago

Please don't store 64KB of JSON. Your CPU will hate you.

We really should move to binary formats for everything. I already do it for nostr:nprofile1qqszzzhxu56wgr756qg30c5c2wgfkjy0chyvlrf2qtt2d4s9y2c88tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszxthwden5te0wajkccm0d4jjumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0jtyu5f it's not that hard.

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Anthony Accioly 3mo ago

I don't disagree here. And we can have multiple on-wire formats (storage format is an implementation detail). Still, not something that will be widely adopted in the short-term (which doesn't mean we shouldn't adopt it at all).