I assume it works. Apparently, I'd need to zap more to really know.
I've made this other relay now: https://zapbox.fiatjaf.com/
First you have to set up a zap threshold, afterwards anything you publish there will only be shown to people who have zapped you at least that threshold in the past 3 months.
All the rest is the same as a Lockbox:
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The stats are really cool.
One thing I'm seeing that might be tricky to resolve is when people use private zaps, each zap is counted as a separate user.
You're asking for too much.
But for people that want to zap privately we can just have a very web2.0 webpage where you can go and pay directly and that gets computed by the relay and you get access, should be simple to do.
Haha! Sorry, I didn't really mean it as an ask. Just observation.
That seems like it would work, sort mixing what the wine creatr relay does and this. That would make relay management & advertising that much easier for the content creator too.
i only priv8 zap
and i read my inbox w thunderhub