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# 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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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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