anton on Nostr: Yes sir! We are actively working on private chat, and will be devising a group chat ...

Yes sir! We are actively working on private chat, and will be devising a group chat version as well, but as of right now this is the active NIP we are implementing POCs for that should be out soon: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/410

As for paid relays, as maintainers of Nostream we’ve done a lot of work to help people host their own relays and that’s something we are working on as well. We have something we’ll be releasing for this in the near future that we’re very excited about 🤩