This study analyzes Nostr relays’ architecture, operational behaviors, and constraints, evaluating performance, scalability, and privacy trade-offs to clarify their role and limits within decentralized communication systems.
Examines Nostr relays’ architecture, message dissemination protocols, concurrency mechanisms and throughput limits, assessing operational behaviors, scalability bottlenecks, and implications for decentralized social systems.
This article examines the Nostr relay’s design and operation, detailing its message-forwarding mechanisms, concurrency handling, and throughput characteristics to assess scalability and deployment trade-offs.