I don’t want to give anybody ideas, but I’m just thinking about a potential scam that could happen on nostr, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

Scammer ups a server pitches it as a paid relay, pitches spam filtering and whatnot, charges ~4K-5k sats per admission, get’s around 1k users. Making about 500000 sats.

Then closed the server and goes home.

Would getting 1k users per relay be that hard to achieve? Is there a relay listing that rates relays? Like member.cash rates profiles?

For a private relay, very little, just your own posts/follows/etc.

Public relays are not recommended for most people, as it could use tons of disk.

📢 Nostr RS Relay is out of beta and available on the Start9 production registry.

Choose whether your relay is private or public and fine tune however you like using a simple, validated form.

Connect from anywhere.

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#[0] How long does it take for the average ~20k Sat take to zap and reflect in my Lightning wallet balance?? New at this.

Well, I just checked out this Start9 and apparently the hardware starts at $500... Umbrel on the other hand, runs on a Raspberry Pi (as far as I understand), which is a lot more cheaper than that. I don't remember the exact price, but I'm almost certain it is less than $100.