An Empirical Analysis of the Nostr Social Network: Decentralization, Availability, and Replication Overhead — mentioned by andros

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:43:07 GMT

Sure, it's Wei & Tyson, "An Empirical Analysis of the Nostr Social Network": https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05709 The 98.2% is download traffic, not relay-to-relay sync. Across 17.8M posts and 712 relays (second half of 2023), the average post sat on 34.6 relays, and since clients subscribe to every relay in their list, they pull the same event over and over. On curation, expiry and registered identities: I agree, and that's more or less my point in the article. A relay that only accepts its members and drops old content is a small community with a gatekeeper and someone paying the bill. That's…

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An Empirical Analysis of the Nostr Social Network: Decentralization, Availability, and Replication Overhead — HN submission

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:52:04 GMT

Exploring the Nostr Ecosystem: A Study of Decentralization and Resilience

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An Empirical Analysis of the Nostr Social Network: Decentralization, Availability, and Replication Overhead — mentioned by andros

An Empirical Analysis of the Nostr Social Network: Decentralization, Availability, and Replication Overhead — HN submission