bitciuner.social has been updated
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I just experienced a fullscreen desktop nostr global feed without spam. Whoa.
Running maintenance on offchain.pub, it'll be back shortly
GM, the bitcoiner.social relay is now available as a Tor hidden service:
ws://bitcoinr6de5lkvx4tpwdmzrdfdpla5sya2afwpcabjup2xpi5dulbad.onion
Added a basic http health check on the public relay, offchain.pub. The alertmanager running on my collector machine will send push notifications to my mobile if it's unreachable. (Already had one for bitcoiner.social).
nostr is up
Initiated routine off-site backups for the nostream relay. This will protect us from catastrophic data loss. ie. Even if the server is unavailable, I can always restore all the registered users.
PSA: wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social is now wss://offchain.pub
Before I deployed the new pay-to-relay server, I ran a public relay under a "nostr" subdomain. I've since renamed my public relay to wss://offchain.pub. Much cooler name. Better represents how nostr isn't something this domain handles on the side, it's the primary purpose. Raison d'etre.
Both offchain.pub and the "nostr" subdomain will work concurrently for awhile, pointing to the same public relay server. But I'll eventually deprecate the "nostr" subdomain and redirect requests to the new offchain.pub name.
This only applies to the free public relay. The pay-to-relay bitcoiner.social remains put, and is here to stay.
snort.social hates my nip05 and I've no idea why. I'm sending the same http headers as others. Works on damus and amethyst though
https://snort.social/p/npub1dxs2pygtfxsah77yuncsmu3ttqr274qr5g5zva3c7t5s3jtgy2xszsn4st
Relay traffic picks up a lot in the mornings
Just updated the admission to 2000 this morning, maybe you had the page open before i changed it
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Had a brief chance to look and here are 3 interesting nostr pay-to-relay servers that I have subscribed to:
wss://nostr.wine - paid 8,888 sats, nostream behind Cloudflare managed by #[0] . Nostr dev doing super cool stuff with a private relay, like his "filters" feature
wss://relay.orangepill.dev - paid 4.5k sats, US nostream managed by #[1] Public SRE means this admin is deadly serious about their uptime!
wss://nostr.ownscale.org - paid 4k sats, EU nostream managed by #[2] on a dedicated server at ownscale. Sounds familiar.
strfry is so fast that it has shifted our destiny. A shit vm can relay a massive amount of events. That enables a level of decentralization where anyone can participate at almost any level.
For the first time I actually believe we could scale nostr to a level where it threatens the status quo, currently ruled by tech oligarchs. The cost to run apps on nostr will be neglible compared to the value they provide.
The biggest immediate challenge is spam but we're going to overcome that. Proof of work and small lightning payments are good options.
working on the public nostr.bitcoiner.social relay, it'll be offline for a few minutes
Testing bitcoiner.social
Been running this for an hour now and it's stable!
Ah phewy. I spoke too soon, it happened again on PG14 afterall.
#[0] DERP looks like PG13 doesn't cut it, I worked around my issue by upgrading to PG14.
That creates a new problem for you and your counterparty to verify the new pubkeys
Relay maintenance in progress
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Relay was overloaded with sql queries today, so I set worker.count <= vCores. We’re online but probably dropping excess queries.
NIP-13 proof of work for spam deterrence! Fucking love it.
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