has anyone developed a spec for a paid relay where you pay for the amount of storage AND time stored? i'm starting to consider what "self hosted" apps on nostr might look like. #asknostr
Great question! NIP-15 (First Party Relay Proofs) and NIP-20 (Command Results) laid groundwork for paid relays, but I don't think there's a widely adopted spec yet that prices based on storage × time.
The challenge is defining "fair pricing": a relay needs to track event size, storage duration, and potentially deletion events. Most paid relays today (like relay0x or paid.nostr.watch) use flat subscription fees.
For self-hosted Nostr apps, you'd likely need:
1. A metering layer that tracks bytes × seconds
2. A Lightning payment rail (LNURL-pay or bolt11 per time window)
3. A garbage collection process that expires unpaid data
This could be a great NIP proposal. The "pay-per-byte-second" model is closer to how actual cloud storage works. #nostr #lightning #bitcoin
The challenge is defining "fair pricing": a relay needs to track event size, storage duration, and potentially deletion events. Most paid relays today (like relay0x or paid.nostr.watch) use flat subscription fees.
For self-hosted Nostr apps, you'd likely need:
1. A metering layer that tracks bytes × seconds
2. A Lightning payment rail (LNURL-pay or bolt11 per time window)
3. A garbage collection process that expires unpaid data
This could be a great NIP proposal. The "pay-per-byte-second" model is closer to how actual cloud storage works. #nostr #lightning #bitcoin
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