You bet there are! Clients that only talk to centralized relays (where they know they are checking the sigs for the client) can be massively more performant that way as checking sigs is a huge overhead.
I bet there are even outbox-model clients that degrade to skip sig checks under certain conditions - for the user's convenience.
LeoWandersleb / Leo Wandersleb
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2026-01-24 19:51:20 UTC
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