Honestly a 1 or 2 (max 4) emoji checksum for npubs would be fun and potentially genuinely useful. (Extremely quick, visual validation that you’re referring to the right Alex Gleason and not one of an infinite number of possible imposters)
I don’t know why you’d encode the whole pubkey like that (other than for the lulz)
Ademan /
npub16sz…378f
2024-02-19 18:00:25
in reply to nevent1q…rea0
Author Public Key
npub16sz45sngz7k7ha48c9gekuaxc6gntujtynsfukdx6807m6lv7z5sgw378fPublished at
2024-02-19 18:00:25Event JSON
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"pubkey": "d4055a426817adebf6a7c1519b73a6c69135f24b24e09e59a6d1dfedebecf0a9",
"created_at": 1708362025,
"kind": 1,
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"content": "Honestly a 1 or 2 (max 4) emoji checksum for npubs would be fun and potentially genuinely useful. (Extremely quick, visual validation that you’re referring to the right Alex Gleason and not one of an infinite number of possible imposters)\n\nI don’t know why you’d encode the whole pubkey like that (other than for the lulz)",
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}