Amazing work. 🔥🔥🔥 I've been looking forward to this. This is the future.
Pay-to-relay is here!
Follow these steps if you’d like to use it:
1. Add wss://eden.nostr.land to your relays.
2. Visit https://eden.nostr.land and follow the prompts to pay. Make sure you READ the Terms of Service CAREFULLY. If you don’t agree please let me know your thoughts.
3. Enjoy a *99.99% spam-free relay.
If you paid the invoice but the page did not update to let you know it was paid just check your DMs for a receipt from the relay. If it’s been a couple of minutes and you haven’t received a DM from the relay let me know.
I’ll be testing Pay-To-Relay with eden.nostr.land starting today and will be fixing any bugs that may arise.
Relay operators: Nostream with pay-to-relay will be released in a couple of days after I am satisfied that it works as expected.
Discussion
OK, I'll be guy to ask the dumb questions. How is this relay spam free, what is it doing differently? How does it block spam coming from other relays I'm connected to? 🤔
Once you make the payment, your public key gets added to the relay's database. After that anything you publish to the relay gets accepted. Posts/notes by pubkeys not on the relay DB will not get published to that relay, but you'll continue to see it from other public relays. Other public relays can pick up the note/post submitted to the paid relay if clients do the job of broadcasting it.