Are these bots you people are using safe?
nostr.watch daemons can soon be blocked via `robots.txt`
Blocking nostr.watch daemons will eventually result in an Uptime of 0% on the site, limited data availability on nostr.watch and will exclude your relay's data from global historical data, which has not yet been revealed.
Robots.txt will not affect-clientside checks, and your relay will still be listed on nostr.watch. Delistings of online relays is not currently supported.
If your relay is `wss://relay.com` then the robots.txt location would be `https://relay.com/robots.txt`
Using robots.txt is not exactly standard, but was easy to piggy-back on, it is temporary. The better solution would be an amendment to NIP-11 of some sort. Robots.txt parsing by nostr.watch daemons will be deprecated when there is a suitable alternative.
If your robots.txt is currently disallowing all User-agents, but you wish to allow nostr.watch, add:
User-agent: nostr.watch
Allow: /
Please be aware the daemons are getting more performant, optimized and polite with each passing day, they were pretty rude out of the gate, largely due to a feedback loop between two disparate bugs. Sorry about that.
Discussion
It's technically a crawler, not a bot.
Are these crawler safe?
The crawler just exercises the protocol.
Also, safety is an illusion.
Bitcoin wallet statements are documents that provide a record of all transactions associated with a particular Bitcoin wallet. These statements provide information about the wallet’s balance, the dates and amounts of any transactions that have occurred, and any fees associated with those transactions. These statements provide an easy way to track Bitcoin transactions and can be used to prove the validity of a transaction or to trace the path of any funds sent out of the wallet.
I don't think we're talking about the same thing.
What are Bitcoin Receipts?