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I still think we need a relay indexing service: a relay whose sole purpose is to know where each event can be found.

That’d be very expensive to run ergo centralizing. Sure, that’d be faster/more effective than hints + gossip, but at what cost? I think gossip and more hints can get us there

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Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

The relay doesn't store any event. It just store pointers to where they are. The idea is to decentralize. Today there are 3000 relays available. We only use 300 or so.

PABLOF7z 2y ago

Yeah, but that relay still would need to keep all event ids; I haven’t ran the numbers but this sounds expensive

Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

It's better than keeping all the events themselves :)

Duck Nebuchadnezzar 2y ago

Could something be done with bloom filters? The downside of a false positive is just querying for records where none would be found.

Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

Maybe.