It’s not just relays that’s the problem, it’s NIP-44 itself.
Per the spec, the maximum payload size is 65535 bytes.
https://github.com/paulmillr/nip44
Dr. The Daniel 🖖
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2026-03-10 01:39:05 UTC
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