jb55 on Nostr: using nostr relays and ephemeral events as a generic tcp proxy mechanism would be an ...

using nostr relays and ephemeral events as a generic tcp proxy mechanism would be an incredibly slow, as it would have to sign and verify every packet as a nostr note, not to mention it would likely be rate limited and blocked on most public relays so it would be very unreliable. Please don’t do that, there is no good reason, and it just wastes the bandwidth of already bandwidth-constrained relays. Just use a regular proxy server.

There are some really cool QUIC based proxy mechanisms that are crazy fast and are e2e encrypted (MASQUE, etc). nostr doesn’t have to do everything, use the right protocol for the job.

gm nostr