Jimstr

nostr relay sysadmin

Public Key

npub1an3nz7lczcunpdw6ltjst94hgzcxpppnk7zk3zr2nfcj4yd96kdse6twjd

NIP-05 Address

Profile Code

nprofile1qqswece300upvwfskhd04eg9j6m5pvrqssem0ptg3p4f5uf2jxjatxcpzemhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skcqgjwaehxw309ahkvenrdpskjm3wwp6ky5fl7ll

Publishing to

bitcoiner.social

offchain.pub

Author Public Key

npub1an3nz7lczcunpdw6ltjst94hgzcxpppnk7zk3zr2nfcj4yd96kdse6twjd

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Last Notes

2024-10-22 22:18:21 GMT

Amen.
#nevent1q…yep0

2024-10-19 18:11:23 GMT

Brainstorming the next iteration on our web of trust model
https://bitcoiner.social/static/attachments/Ii83DA_weboftuss.png
* use postgres instead of sqlite
* admin UI for introducing new npubs into the web
* ollama assistant performs summarization and calls out any red flags
nostr feels like its in a goldilocks of freedom period. the right kind of plebs are already using it today. we gotta build our systems up before the 4th turning sends us all the zombies
pleb dev says he should have some time to work on this when he goes to Tabconf next week!

2024-10-05 15:16:19 GMT

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Physical distance makes a big difference.

2024-09-05 18:50:16 GMT

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And looks like we're already back. Only a few minutes of downtime after all

2024-09-05 15:10:05 GMT

Our dedicated server host is moving equipment to a new data center, so the relay will be down for a few hours today as their working. Here's their communication:
> What is happening?
>
> We will be physically migrating our hardware to a new rack within the same data center. The new rack is located two rows away from the current one, and the estimated time for this process is approximately two hours.
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> Why is this necessary?
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> This migration is part of our efforts to accommodate planned growth at this location. It will provide us with additional space and more control over our network and infrastructure, allowing us to bring this location to the same standards as our other POPs.
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> How long will this take?
>
> While the physical relocation is expected to take two hours, we are setting a maintenance window of three hours to account for any potential delays. During this time, your dedicated server will be powered down, and you will experience a loss of connectivity. (This may not happen at exactly at 11:00 AM EST.) After the migration is complete, we will restore power and verify connectivity.

2024-07-25 17:46:00 GMT

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should we set up a strfry filter to screen all replies from npubs outside our web of trust using llama3.1-3b?
wanted to do that for awhile but its been in the backlog

2024-07-20 16:43:53 GMT

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👈

2024-07-16 15:30:57 GMT

Might switch the relay over to Ditto

2024-06-15 03:23:00 GMT

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We don't keep logs but ip rate limits means we have your IP in a database for a few minutes after you post.

2024-06-09 21:28:16 GMT

Just initiated the DNS changes to migrate to our new server. We're keeping an eye on traffic starting to switch over now. Looking good so far.

2024-06-09 01:02:21 GMT

New server is staged so we'll tentatively schedule our relay migration tomorrow, assuming we don't drink too much tonight. Good evening!

2024-06-03 14:56:05 GMT

Waking up to see we have access to our new bare metal blade server for the relay. CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2690v2 ( 10 cores / 20 threads @ 3.00 GHz ) RAM: 64GB DDR3 ECC
I usually run Debian on servers, but maybe today's the day to put NixOS on a server. Hmm.
Good morning

2024-06-02 17:43:00 GMT

You're right, we can do better.
We've been keeping our smole relay fast and healthy is by periodically pruning events. Paid users like yourself still get longer duration. Occasionally when we see the usage spike, we dial up the pruning. Rinse repeat over the last year and now events expire within weeks rather than months like when we initially started. It's time for us to grow with nostr a bit, so we just paid to lease an affordable dedicated server in Kansas. This will increase the duration that we can keep posts, like more than 10x (last time we had a dedicated server we didn't prune at all). We backup our event store regularly, so when we migrate a lot of old events will get restored on this particular relay.
Our costs increase as well, so we're working on improving our web of trust model and eventually setting up subscriptions.
#nevent1q…4etp

2024-01-30 19:16:17 GMT

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And we're back.

2024-01-30 07:25:20 GMT

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Server is rebuilding the raid array currently, and should be back online afterwards. Couple hours maybe.

2024-01-30 01:28:52 GMT

A data center outage is in progress, the relay may be unavailable for a bit. We'll be back asap.

2024-01-21 04:58:19 GMT

Just completed some relay server maintenace today that changes our pruning strategy to keep events from friends-of-friends for a longer period.

2024-01-20 21:38:04 GMT

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Fantastic! We have one too, no auth required currently.
ws://bitcoinr6de5lkvx4tpwdmzrdfdpla5sya2afwpcabjup2xpi5dulbad.onion

2024-01-05 22:29:26 GMT

@79f00d3f5a19ec806189fcab03c1be4ff81d18ee4f653c88fac41fe03570f432 137155 events, 268.3 MB bytes
that's a lotta zaps in our database 👏

2023-12-31 18:41:49 GMT

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It's a temporary spam prevention policy.

2023-12-31 17:27:25 GMT

Happy New Year
We're just getting started here

2023-10-22 04:41:11 GMT

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Because we'll never restrict the high utility event kinds (like nwc) and have long term pleb-sized plans for this relay.

2023-10-22 04:36:44 GMT

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wss://bitcoiner.social if you want. We love you regardless.

2023-10-20 17:47:21 GMT

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This list is a little dated

2023-10-13 20:40:31 GMT

Running @npub1048…x3nf
https://news.bitcoiner.social/

2023-10-11 17:44:18 GMT

We have opened the gates again. Public relay write access is available, with some restrictions intended to inhibit spam. All existing premium users of bitcoiner.social retain unrestricted write access.
Current policies are experimental and subject to change. Big thanks to @npub1dvd…0wh3 for testing some of them out in advance!
If you operate a broadcasting service, just provide us a stable source address to exclude from our rate limits.

2023-09-25 20:30:23 GMT

For those asking, our relay is temporarily private while we work on a new sustainability model. Aiming for a mixure of free or very inexpensive relay of notes (and other stuff). Most of the work up to now has been about making the existing relay faster and more stable. No point in charging for services if they suck, afterall! Our dev guy is working through a backlog trying to get to this.

2023-08-15 21:21:27 GMT

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sup

2023-08-15 20:03:40 GMT

The mempool is a layer cake:
https://bitcoiner.social/static/attachments/Wi5noA_mempool-cake.png
That's the one-week chart. Monthly looks pretty similar. You know what this means!

2023-08-14 23:52:00 GMT

We just started running snort on bitcoiner.social
Now you can link directly to nostr events on this relay via our snort instance, such as your profile page:
https://snort.bitcoiner.social/p/npub1an3nz7lczcunpdw6ltjst94hgzcxpppnk7zk3zr2nfcj4yd96kdse6twjd
Big thanks to @npub1sn0…jtws
https://void.cat/d/89e8Dhgii9xnEBQfZnp7be.webp