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walker

Question(s) for paid relay operators:

What are the biggest challenges in running a paid relay? Has spam still been an issue even though they’re paid?

Mazin 2y ago

Optimizing for scale. Reliability, performance, regional availability.

We have blocked exactly 1 spammer since the start of nostr.wine and it was early on.

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seha⚡️ 2y ago

how do you currently detect spam? user reports or proactive monitoring? i would imagine 20k sats upfront to be a sufficient deterrent.

Mazin 2y ago

It was back when the price was 8888 and we got one user report and I saw it on the feed. Same message over and over kinda spam.

My point was that generally speaking spam is NOT an issue on paid relays.

walker 2y ago

Good to know. I suppose any sufficiently motivated spammer could pay a fee, but most will not.

Mazin 2y ago

Without writing them a playbook, I’m sure more sophisticated scammers will eventually make their way on to paid relays. That will be a harder threat to detect and address.