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Lightning network enjoyer Mentor at The Bitcoin Mentor

Gigi (or anyone) - what is considered best practice when it comes to selecting relays?

This is something that I don't often see mentioned but feels like a critical yet unintuitive element of the Nostr user experience.

Some questions to illustrate the point:

- How important is it to select relays that are close geographically?

- How many relays is optimal and is there a performance trade-off from having too many?

- Are paid relays deemed necessary at this point in time for a new user?

- Do Nostr clients have the ability to change which relays you use without specific user intervention, or are relays entirely client-agnostic?

Cheers.

Are you sure? I've tried just now and it doesn't seem to work.

He seems more nervous than usual of late, compared to a few years ago... Not sure what is going on there.

Like when Sorkin asked him about Bitcoin recently... He came across as visibly agitated?

Version 0.1 of our home IR sauna.

Have set it up in a cupboard on our balcony. Need to run proper cabling and seal the space up for better heat retention but early signs are good.