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TIL that cashu tokens are base64-encoded JSON.

WTF people. Have you never heard of binary serialization? No wonder cashu has such huge, hard to scan, QR codes.
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1F52B 2y ago

Somewhat for the same reason NOSTR is JSON not a smaller binary packing, because JSON is near universally usable, even if pretty crap

Low dev effort to get started using a thing is important, perfect enemy of good

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Carman 2y ago

If you are base64 encoding it there is no benefit to json though

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Peter Todd 2y ago

This is financial crypto we're talking about. If you can't decode some binary serialization you shouldn't be working on it.