wtogami on Nostr: Not asking for refunds. Relay software authors and relay operators need to be paid ...

Not asking for refunds. Relay software authors and relay operators need to be paid for quality service to be sustainable in the future. Everyone is trying hard and that's all I ask for. Thank you for your good work!

That said I'm interested in your opinion on this approach to make paid relays more sustainable.

quoting nevent1q…qzz8

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Read-only access for non-paying users is too resource heavy. So locking it down where connection requires authenticating the npub with challenge in order to read would guarantee quality of service.

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But requiring the private key for reading from paid relays would break the simplest personal proxy server. These are desired as a way to substantially reduce the amount of data a mobile client needs to download by having your proxy sync from relays and filter on your behalf.

We could have the benefit of both pay-to-read and personal proxies after key delegation and revocation becomes a Nostr standard. We want this anyway to make it easier to keep our master private keys better protected, maybe even offline most of the time.