Wondering this too.

That was my first paid relay. An era gone by now.

Lack of financial resources may be

My guess: its difficult to keep a paid service up in a small scale. Its easier to run for free than paid. Because when paid there is more responsibility and when the number of paying customers are super low, you are having a semi full time job with very little return.

Not sure 🤔, maybe a monthly fee would work better 🤷‍♂️

Thanks nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m for taking interest. It’s due to cost mainly. Costs peaked $593 USD in March when Eden was still geographically distributed and we averaged over 900 connections on each node for their respective time zones. We’ve sinc...