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💰 39 Paid Relays 💰
(1) eden.nostr.land 🎖
⚡️ 5000 sats
📝 999 events/day
👨🏾💻 Operator #[0]
(2) nostr.milou.lol 🎖
⚡️ 1000 sats
👷🏼♂️ Operator #[1]
(3) puravida.nostr.land 🎖
⚡️ 10000 sats
👨🏽🔧 Operator #[2]
(4) relay.nostr.com.au 🎖
⚡️ 6969 sats
📝 993 events/day
👨🏿💻 Operator #[3]
(5) relay.orangepill.dev 🎖
⚡️ 4500 sats
📝 500 events/day
👨🏼💻 Operator #[4]
(6) nostr.wine 🎖
⚡️ 18888 sats
📝 1000 events/day
👷🏾♂️ Operator #[5]
(7) nostr.inosta.cc 🎖
⚡️ 5000 sats
📝 1001 events/day
👨🏽🔧 Operator #[6]
(8) relay.nostrati.com 🎖
⚡️ 2000 sats
📝 1001 events/day
👨🏾💻 Operator #[7]
(9) atlas.nostr.land 🎖
⚡️ 15000 sats
👷🏻♂️ Operator #[8]
(10) nostr.plebchain.org 🎖
⚡️ 6969 sats
📝 1489 events/day
👷🏽♂️ Operator #[9]
(11) relay.nostriches.org 🎖
⚡️ 421 sats
📝 1001 events/day
👨🏽💻 Operator #[10]
(12) relay.nostrich.land 🎖
⚡️ 2100 sats
📝 1501 events/day
👷🏾♂️ Operator #[11]
(13) nostr.decentony.com 🎖
⚡️ 7000 sats
📝 1001 events/day
👨🏼🔧 Operator #[12]
(14) bitcoiner.social 🎖
⚡️ 1000 sats
📝 500 events/day
👷🏽♂️ Operator #[13]
(15) private.red.gb.net 🎖
⚡️ 8888 sats
📝 1120 events/day
👷🏼♂️ Operator #[14]
(16) nostr.gives.africa 🎖
⚡️ 10000 sats
📝 1498 events/day
👷🏿♂️ Operator #[15]
(17) nostr.uselessshit.co 🎖
⚡️ 2169 sats
📝 1001 events/day
👨🏿💻 Operator #[16]
(18) nostr.ownscale.org 🎖
⚡️ 4000 sats
📝 271 events/day
👨🏾🔧 Operator #[17]
(19) nostr.howtobitcoin.shop 🎖
⚡️ 5000 sats
📝 160 events/day
👨🏿💻 Operator #[18]
(20) nostr.bitcoinpuertori.co 🎖
⚡️ 10000 sats
👨🏽🔧 Operator #[19]
(21) paid.spore.ws 🎖
⚡️ 420 sats
📝 1001 events/day
👷🏿♂️ Operator #[20]
(22) nostr.bitcoinplebs.de 🎖
⚡️ 5000 sats
📝 129 events/day
👷🏻♂️ Operator #[21]
(23) nostr.naut.social 🎖
⚡️ 4000 sats
📝 499 events/day
👨🏻🔧 Operator #[22]
(24) lightningrelay.com 🎖
⚡️ 6678 sats
📝 1001 events/day
👷🏼♂️ Operator #[23]
(25) relay.stonez.me 🎖
⚡️ 1000 sats
📝 999 events/day
👷🏻♂️ Operator #[24]
(26) relay.orange-crush.com 🎖
⚡️ 8000 sats
👨🏼💻 Operator #[25]
(27) relay.nostrview.com 🎖
⚡️ 4000 sats
📝 498 events/day
👷🏿♂️ Operator #[26]
(28) nostr.easify.de 🎖
⚡️ 2100 sats
📝 199 events/day
👷🏼♂️ Operator #[27]
(29) relay.nostr.distrl.net 🎖
⚡️ 10000 sats
👷🏿♂️ Operator #[28]
(30) nostream.denizenid.com 🎖
⚡️ 10000 sats
👨🏼💻 Operator #[29]
(31) nostrsatva.net 🎖
⚡️ 1500 sats
👷🏻♂️ Operator #[30]
(32) at.nostrworks.com 🎖
⚡️ 5000 sats
📝 39 events/day
👨🏾💻 Operator #[31]
(33) relay.alien.blue 🎖
⚡️ 21000 sats
📝 16 events/day
👨🏻💻 Operator #[32]
(34) nostream.nostrly.io 🎖
⚡️ 5000 sats
📝 35 events/day
👨🏿🔧 Operator #[33]
(35) bitcoinmaximalists.online 🎖
⚡️ 10000 sats
📝 370 events/day
👨🏿🔧 Operator #[34]
(36) relay.nostr.nu 🎖
⚡️ 2000 sats
📝 7 events/day
👷🏿♂️ Operator #[35]
(37) nostr.sovbit.host 🎖
⚡️ 10000 sats
📝 15 events/day
👨🏼💻 Operator #[36]
(38) nostr01.vida.dev 🎖
⚡️ 1000 sats
🎟 10 sats per post
📝 143 events/day
👨🏾🔧 Operator #[37]
(39) nostr.1sat.org 🎖
⚡️ 1337 sats
📝 265 events/day
👨🏼💻 Operator #[38]
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Discussion
Yeah, they are! ⚡️💪🏻⚡️
They're growing, not thriving. Right now my revenue covers about half my cloud costs.
Doesn't matter as it's all about the experiment, but paid relays at scale will need to make money. Not a lot - mostly they will be a utility business so the time costs of management can be spread across thousands? tens thousands? users.
My view is that it will shake out to annual costs of between $2-$5 per user per year, maybe less if management time is minimal.
Always remember, it's relay owners who has to deal with DMCA issues. THAT could be the time suck that really pushes costs.
Yes, I totally agree with you. My goal is to make it run on its own without funds. Although I haven’t spent a lot of money at present, it‘s better to have a monthly or annual subscription plan in the future. The biggest problem is that it has taken me a lot of time to do some development, especially now. As the number of users increases, the problem will definitely increase, and the human and material resources required will also increase. I believe everything will be fine.
Although I didn‘t promote it, someone joined in every day. The atmosphere here is really good. Although I spent a lot of time here, I feel very happy.
Yeah, I get 1-2 joins almost every day too. But I need 3-4 to break even. But, it's fun. I'll always be able to say I had the first Uk Paid Relay, which will be fun until until no one knows what means. I also wrote the first uk.finance but that stopped meaning anything around 1998...:-)
I'm currently working on launching a paid relay too. If I can manage to break even, I will be very happy and it will bring value to the network.