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"Anyone can run a relay", yes, but you and Marty need to understand the scalability limitations with the "blast all the things to all the relays" approach. That won't work in the long term, and the sooner we reconcile ourselves to that fact, the sooner we can solve the underlying problems with the network as it currently exists.
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Leo Wandersleb 2y ago

This sentiment ... why not work on building a market? If I run relay number 2 million and people pay for me storing their events, I'm happy to take their money.

Free relays are the problem!

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Blake 2y ago

I don’t have more than lots of observation, however I don’t think blastr reliability hits more than around 30-50 relays total. Often less.

The 300 numbers gets thrown around a lot, however I suspect the relays being offline/shutdown, rate limiting, now requiring payment, Ip blocking, or whatever else (without stateful retry publishing on failure) doesn’t match the common outcome.

I think generally relay payment support is developing along side - but we have limitations in client UI, subscription payments, being lightning only, etc. I don’t think we even have solid open source relay payment gateways that track pubkeys days until expiry or whatever.