@Aaron van Wirdum impressed by your patience

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Trying to recap the history of nostr proposals for onion routing to preserve network metadata privacy:

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Are there any current onion routing proposals using NIP-17? CC @PABLOF7z and @Vitor Pamplona I believe I saw some rumbling from you guys in some deep comment threads.

@Keychat any thoughts on this simple onion routing proposal for nostr as an extra privacy layer? Feel like it could be useful for low bandwidth, but extra sensitive messages. Or is something like this already baked in?

GitHub

Publish by peers · Issue #411 · nostr-protocol/nips

TL;DR: problem: relays know the IP of clients and can track their private messaging activity solution: clients can use onion-routing like events to...

Has there been any consideration for #nostr relays to support some sort of compact filters like BIP157/158 style in order to preserve user privacy? Allow reading from a relay without disclosing exactly which events they are interested in.