npub1u5…rldq3 on Nostr: Last I checked (last year, on nostr.band) there were ~ 45 million pubkeys. But I ...

Last I checked (last year, on nostr.band) there were ~ 45 million pubkeys. But I don’t have 45 million trusted assertions. I only keep as many TAs as I want, no more, which for now is on the order of 100k. One (of multiple) advantages is speed. For any user who doesn’t have a TA from my personal PoV, if I need a score, I calculate it after I know I need it. Alternatively, I pull the TA from the PoV of someone I trust, if the option exists; and it will be relatively easy to find one if so. This is the kind of solution that will be highly effective at reducing the number of TAs by many orders of magnitude.