diff --git a/packages/app/src/Const.ts b/packages/app/src/Const.ts
index 63e8c9b04..f0b47144f 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/Const.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/Const.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { RelaySettings } from "@snort/system";
-import { bech32ToHex } from "SnortUtils";
 
 /**
  * 1 Hour in seconds
@@ -61,10 +60,10 @@ export const DefaultRelays = new Map<string, RelaySettings>([
 export const SearchRelays = ["wss://relay.nostr.band"];
 
 export const DeveloperAccounts = [
-  bech32ToHex(KieranPubKey), // kieran
-  bech32ToHex("npub1g53mukxnjkcmr94fhryzkqutdz2ukq4ks0gvy5af25rgmwsl4ngq43drvk"), // Martti
-  bech32ToHex("npub107jk7htfv243u0x5ynn43scq9wrxtaasmrwwa8lfu2ydwag6cx2quqncxg"), // verbiricha
-  bech32ToHex("npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac"), // Karnage
+  "63fe6318dc58583cfe16810f86dd09e18bfd76aabc24a0081ce2856f330504ed", // kieran
+  "4523be58d395b1b196a9b8c82b038b6895cb02b683d0c253a955068dba1facd0", // Martti
+  "7fa56f5d6962ab1e3cd424e758c3002b8665f7b0d8dcee9fe9e288d7751ac194", // verbiricha
+  "1bc70a0148b3f316da33fe3c89f23e3e71ac4ff998027ec712b905cd24f6a411", // Karnage
 ];
 
 /**
diff --git a/packages/app/src/SnortUtils/index.ts b/packages/app/src/SnortUtils/index.ts
index acffbddac..4f21ff8b0 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/SnortUtils/index.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/SnortUtils/index.ts
@@ -75,13 +75,9 @@ export function parseId(id: string) {
 }
 
 export function bech32ToHex(str: string) {
-  try {
-    const nKey = bech32.decode(str, 1_000);
-    const buff = bech32.fromWords(nKey.words);
-    return utils.bytesToHex(Uint8Array.from(buff));
-  } catch (e) {
-    return str;
-  }
+  const nKey = bech32.decode(str, 10_000);
+  const buff = bech32.fromWords(nKey.words);
+  return bytesToHex(buff);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -90,13 +86,9 @@ export function bech32ToHex(str: string) {
  * @returns
  */
 export function bech32ToText(str: string) {
-  try {
-    const decoded = bech32.decode(str, 1000);
-    const buf = bech32.fromWords(decoded.words);
-    return new TextDecoder().decode(Uint8Array.from(buf));
-  } catch {
-    return "";
-  }
+  const nKey = bech32.decode(str, 10_000);
+  const buff = bech32.fromWords(nKey.words);
+  return new TextDecoder().decode(buff);
 }
 
 /**