It took us 2 years to develop, test, audit and verify nip44. How long did you want it to take to not be rushed? We needed to get out of nip04 fast. Everybody was complaining about how terrible it was and it was affecting Nostr's image everywhere, but especially in the cryptography community, which knew very well how idiotic the scheme was.
Since nip44, no one has dared to say Nostr devs have no idea what they are doing in encryption.
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2 years? It only took a few months at most, and the specification was likely outlined within an hour.
The only thing that has taken 2 years is convincing devs that the absurd gift wrap standard (independent of NIP-44) is a good idea, which continues to be proof that Nostr devs truly have no idea what they are doing.
By trying to get a solution to obscure complaints fast the only thing we have done is left much more realistic problems like encryption intent unsolved.
Nostr’s image was not significantly impacted by NIP-04 except research papers that like to dunk on unrealistic scenarios, and NIP-44 *adoption* (due to it mostly being a low practical benefit change) is still nowhere near completion, partly because the only scheme using it also happens to be shit.
I see you don't even know we changed cryptographic curves (a fundamental step) twice 7 months after the first idea and had to retest everything.
I am not even including giftwrapping and the NIP-17 scheme. 2 years was just NIP44.
I am going to stop this discussion because you clearly have a grudge and your ego is overwritting any rational discussion on this. There is no point. You just want to create a fuzz about it even though you agree NIP44 is significantly better than nip04.
