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πŸ“• The Relay (Nostr Implementation Possibilities β„–5)Β #125

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@BLamy

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https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips

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Relays in depth: NIP-11 relay information documents; NIP-42 AUTH challenge-response; NIP-45 COUNT; NIP-50 search; NIP-40 expiration and NIP-09 deletion requests (and why deletion is only a request); NIP-65 relay lists and the outbox model β€” how clients route reads to an author's write relays so the network has no center. Reuse the relay-topology morph idiom from the toolkit.

This book is part of the series "Nostr Implementation Possibilities" (book 5 of 10) β€” pass --series "Nostr Implementation Possibilities" --series-order 5 to video.mjs. Depends on the nostr viz toolkit (PR #120) being merged.

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The Relay

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dumb pipes, smart clients

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a pelican

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#fb7185

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(claude-opus-4-8)

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    new-bookIssue β†’ generate one explainer book
    on Jul 22, 2026
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