So let me get this straight: bitcoinerrorlog (npub13nd…0svh) 's Pubky uses Pkarr which basically stores your home server in the BitTorrent DHT, keyed under your public key. Then, your home server can be whatever but John likes REST.
Nostr started out with pubkeys, then realized it would be good to have the pubkey distinguishable from the privkey and invented npub. Then "invented" storing that npub behind some DNS entry (nip5) and then figured out it would probably be a good idea to also store the ~homeserver~ list of relays there.
Pubky is better because ... we can't store our list of relays in BT DHT just in case? Or why is it better exactly? I don't get it.
LeoWandersleb / Leo Wandersleb
npub1gm…78rf6
2026-06-02 12:13:48 UTC
Author Public Key
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wss://yabu.mePublished at
2026-06-02 12:13:48 UTCEvent JSON
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