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How is the infrastructure and bandwidth paid for?

• jasode 3y ago
  >How is the infrastructure and bandwidth paid for? For bandwidth intensive usage such as video, it will probably be "paid relays" instead of free ones. Click on url in the "Popular paid relays" paragraph to see examples: https://nostr.how/en/relays https://nostr.how/en/relays Nostr is popular with the cryptocurrency community so the payment mechanics seem to favor Bitcoin and/or Bitcoin Lightning.
  • thisgoesnowhere 3y ago
    It's really not popular at all and it's growing linearly in terms of users (death sentence for a social) yet completely flat (suspiciously flat in my opinion) in terms of adoption. https://stats.nostr.band/ https://stats.nostr.band/
  • kinakomochidayo 3y ago
    Nostr is only popular with Bitcoin maxis. Nobody else cares about Nostr.
    • npoc 3y ago
      Its popular with people who understand the importance of decentralisation
    • jimmydoreornot 3y ago
      Right. And that is why Stella Assange and Matt Taibbi are on there... because they are bitcoin maxis. /s
• kevindamm 3y ago
  Paid relays look like they cost on average 5000 lightning, which is estimated at $65 USD currently, and that's a one time fee (until they get recurring payments set up, I'm guessing most relays will convert to that).. but flare in their FAQ recommends getting 8-10 relays.
• itslennysfault 3y ago
  The "notes" (non-video content) are hosted on relays like everything in Nostr. The media is hosted on regular web servers and it says you can host it anywhere. It seems like most of the videos are hosted here: https://nostr.build/ https://nostr.build/ Which is a paid service backed by AWS S3