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Relayable.org 2y ago

# Relayable Updates from July 2023

## Donations and Overhead Costs

**For July 1st-31st**

Average of **89,323** unique users per relay location

Transferred an average of **2TB** per relay location (see attached image)

Operating Costs **$1123.32**

Donations **194,182 sats ($57.14 USD)**

We currently have 3 relays donated to us which helps but we continue to scale to meet demands.

We have added the `zbd.gg` relay to list we stream from.

Blocked additional airdrop spam accounts and pleased with the spam filtering efficiency.

Our LMDB database (sync'd at each relay location) has passed the 40GB mark in size

We are continuing to improve the service.

Thanks to everyone for their support!

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m4dire0701 2y ago

Donated 500 sats. Good luck!

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Relayable.org 2y ago

Thank you always appreciated. 💜🤙

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Crizzo 2y ago

This does not look sustainable.

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Relayable.org 2y ago

Not at such a low rate of donations. Grants seem to only go to devs doing frontend clients. Not many support the infrastructure those clients use. 💜

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Save Invest Repeat 2y ago

Relays continue to be the most underappreciated part of this entire infrastructure.

I guess nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx, nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m etc. should look at supporting more relay owners and maintainers as well. Not just front end.

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DZC 2y ago

Thanks for your work!!

Do you think #nostr clients local databases will reduce the burden they lay nowadays over the relays?

At least nostr:npub1fjtdwclt9lspjy8huu3qklr7eklp5uq90u6yh8mec290pqxraccqlufnas and Amethyst (cc. nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z) are working on them, afaict.

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Relayable.org 2y ago

Relays will still be needed. The local database seems more of a caching layer from what know about it.

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DZC 2y ago

Yeah, yeah, of course: relays are a crucial part of #nostr.

A caching layer/database will allow to not ask again and again for the same information to the relays, imo.

That's why I mentioned it.

Thanks again!

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