There is no reasonably drawable format that can encode 32 bytes. You'd spend 20 minutes drawing an npub. And if there was some recognizable, drawable, data-dense shorthand, relay-dependence is always a factor — the event might not be present on the relay.
Glyphbyte is my argument for why nostr relays should **once again** support partial queries. They always did at first until it was **unnecessarily** optimized away for no real reason. Partial queries were even specified in NIP-01.
If you can invent a drawable data format that encodes 32 bytes and takes a minute to draw, let me know!
arkinox
npub1ar…rh43w
2026-09-25 19:15:21 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…wdh6
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