I want accounting! I'm still trying to hire people to help implement my vision of the same in what I think now is the best relay implementation (sorry #[1]): nostream.

#[2] how is the friend-of-a-friend thing going? I might have somebody to work on it. 5 freelancers said no. The 6th said he liked nostr.

After that, I want to require authentication for all connected clients and measure:

* how many requests

* how many bytes sent

* how many bytes received

* how many ms to EOSE consumed (or if DB tells me the complexity of the query ...)

* how long the socket was open,

* how many filters kept in memory watching

* ...

Anti-spam measures will be introduced with the premium tier accounts, their follows, their follows follows, etc.

If somebody wants to copy the full DB twice every minute that's fine with me but then he should pay for it. Currently that would be $5/month? But mainly this is to collect data and put the tools in place to design the right incentives for a scaling infrastructure.