diff --git a/internal/binary/binary_bench_test.go b/internal/binary/binary_bench_test.go
index d414ea1..5e9ed31 100644
--- a/internal/binary/binary_bench_test.go
+++ b/internal/binary/binary_bench_test.go
@@ -11,43 +11,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/nbd-wtf/go-nostr/test_common"
 )
 
-func BenchmarkBinaryEncoding(b *testing.B) {
-	events := make([]*nostr.Event, len(test_common.NormalEvents))
-	binaryEvents := make([]*Event, len(test_common.NormalEvents))
-	for i, jevt := range test_common.NormalEvents {
-		evt := &nostr.Event{}
-		json.Unmarshal([]byte(jevt), evt)
-		events[i] = evt
-		binaryEvents[i] = BinaryEvent(evt)
-	}
-
-	b.Run("easyjson.Marshal", func(b *testing.B) {
-		for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
-			for _, evt := range events {
-				easyjson.Marshal(evt)
-			}
-		}
-	})
-
-	b.Run("gob.Encode", func(b *testing.B) {
-		for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
-			for _, evt := range events {
-				var buf bytes.Buffer
-				gob.NewEncoder(&buf).Encode(evt)
-				_ = buf.Bytes()
-			}
-		}
-	})
-
-	b.Run("binary.Marshal", func(b *testing.B) {
-		for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
-			for _, evt := range events {
-				Marshal(evt)
-			}
-		}
-	})
-}
-
 func BenchmarkBinaryDecoding(b *testing.B) {
 	events := make([][]byte, len(test_common.NormalEvents))
 	gevents := make([][]byte, len(test_common.NormalEvents))
diff --git a/internal/binary/event.go b/internal/binary/event.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 5aa0536..0000000
--- a/internal/binary/event.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-package binary
-
-import (
-	"encoding/hex"
-
-	"github.com/nbd-wtf/go-nostr"
-)
-
-type Event struct {
-	PubKey    [32]byte
-	Sig       [64]byte
-	ID        [32]byte
-	Kind      uint16
-	CreatedAt nostr.Timestamp
-	Content   string
-	Tags      nostr.Tags
-}
-
-func BinaryEvent(evt *nostr.Event) *Event {
-	bevt := Event{
-		Tags:      evt.Tags,
-		Content:   evt.Content,
-		Kind:      uint16(evt.Kind),
-		CreatedAt: evt.CreatedAt,
-	}
-
-	hex.Decode(bevt.ID[:], []byte(evt.ID))
-	hex.Decode(bevt.PubKey[:], []byte(evt.PubKey))
-	hex.Decode(bevt.Sig[:], []byte(evt.Sig))
-
-	return &bevt
-}
-
-func (bevt *Event) ToNormalEvent() *nostr.Event {
-	return &nostr.Event{
-		Tags:      bevt.Tags,
-		Content:   bevt.Content,
-		Kind:      int(bevt.Kind),
-		CreatedAt: bevt.CreatedAt,
-		ID:        hex.EncodeToString(bevt.ID[:]),
-		PubKey:    hex.EncodeToString(bevt.PubKey[:]),
-		Sig:       hex.EncodeToString(bevt.Sig[:]),
-	}
-}