Ryan on Nostr: My nostr.build account costs less than a night out at the theater, for an entire year ...

My nostr.build account costs less than a night out at the theater, for an entire year of media hosting plus many other great tools. Bob2 (nprofile…2fa3) & fishcake (nprofile…8k3w) provide a great free service too, and by becoming a paying user you help make Nostr better for everyone.

A cheap VPS is all you need to run a relay. Mine costs me $25/per year. 👨‍💻 utxo 👨‍💻 (nprofile…6u4e) has created a range of relay options, from personal relays (including blossom media hosting), to WoT relays, letting you make a safer place to onboard your friends and family. If you don't feel that you can run your own, relay.tools is a hosted option, thanks to cloud fodder (nprofile…nggv)

Support the services that make Nostr run, otherwise they will have to find other ways of funding, which in the past has led to bad results with online services, or even worse, they will disappear.

quoting nevent1q…u9x0

Many npubs don't seem to get that the things they're using and doing cost money NOW, so zapping someone providing services 2 sats and adding

"⚡⚡⚡That's generational wealth 😁"

in the comment just feels like we're being mocked, because the running costs are billing 10.000x-1.000.000x EVERY MONTH.

Bitcoiners have no sense of what things actually cost TODAY, and this is slowing adoption because people won't blink at spending $5 on something, but ask for 5000 satoshis and they're like,

How about, I give you 5 satoshis and you hodl it for 5 years, and then pay the bills? 🤔