I'm sorry man, I'm not trying to rain on your parade. I don't even have an iPhone. I am just personally floored by this as signatures are what attracted me to nostr in the first place. It's like that PGP moment, we all finally have signatures, we finally convinced people to use them!! Am in the only one thinking this?

Mobile is very hard and I have no doubt someone will have to centralize an app to really provide a good mobile experience with push notifications and low bandwidth usage. What I did not expect was for the heavyweight clients we have now to skip sig checks. Half the clients I use connect to relays that I didn't even pick when they start.

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I'm not even against it, it will just take some time to make it performant. Damus only connects to a set of relays you trust/vet and does not connect to random relays. It is not an unreasonable tradeoff in those settings and the perf/battery life gain is noticeable. I had it on originally until the perf hit was too bad to justify when the servers are already validating sigs. People should PR this if they think its a huge issue, I do not at this time but obviously this will not be true forever.

If you get a duplicate event that's already validated, you can toss it and skip validation. I don't know if that improves performance or if you were already doing that.

This looks relevant but also looks hard (unless some library already does it): https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/80698/schnorrs-batch-validation

I’ve been wondering why my battery’s been draining so quickly lately 😅

I added nostr event signature verification toggle in settings (verify, don't trust) feature request in Damus github board: https://github.com/damus-io/damus/issues/617

Added more long term multi-threaded refactor as well https://github.com/damus-io/damus/issues/618