I didn't read the full discussion, but npubs are definitely insufficient.
That's why we have nprofiles, nip05s or at least the dependency on a client having access to a greater ecosystem of recent events from other people that may provide updated hints to the relays of a bare npub, ideally through some form of local database. It's all on a best-effort basis, no mathematical guarantees, but I think that suits the messy world we live in very well.
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npub180…jh6w6
2026-01-14 20:36:24 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…uxag
Author Public Key
npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6Published at
2026-01-14 20:36:24 UTCEvent JSON
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