Guessing the pub key serves both the encryption and DNS, basically. Yeah this sounds dumb. There's some obvious ways to both make this private and add some distribution of encrypted data for redundancy. I like nostr's ad-hoc client-relay architecture. I write my events to my own home relay and also forward them to a few public and invite-only relays. But everybody publishes relay lists also so clients can request their content from other relays not on your normal relay list. It's all interoperable and you can customize it however suits you. How is his idea better? 🤣
"Technically more elegant" he claims.
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There is no DNS, that's my whole point. It doesn't "improve" DNS, it replaces the entire concept of a domain name with a public key random string of characters. There is no "domain" or "name" as part of it. It's really nothing more than a wrapper for the IP address, which, is equally difficult to remember. That's the whole idea behind a domain name, not that domain names really are anything today other than a vanity-plate for your IP address, since nobody can remember your domain name either.