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>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

by 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