Three npub-bearing anchors pushed the pairing URI to ~600 chars (QR ~v23 at EC-M) — phone cameras couldn't lock onto it off a screen. The phone only needs the node itself (LAN p2p) plus one public rendezvous (vps2 preferred), and screen scans don't need EC-M's damage tolerance — L drops a full version tier. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>