There was an electricity in the air last night. With the naked eye, it simply looked like a greenish haze. I was pretty sure it was the northern lights because I watched the sliver of a moon set in the early evening. So I kept going outside, and just absorbing it all. There was fog coming and going, but the green haze just barely outperforming our earth lights.. Instead of one big bang, it was just a gradual glow with some peaks. One I happened to catch here.

nostr21.com: a short story about tor connections It's typically the busiest relay in the cluster, I generally attribute that to it being the oldest. I was looking at it today, trying to figure out "why are there so many connections?" It has a crude WOA: (3000 npubs) + my follows from 2 years ago, + a paid option for 21 sats. Of which, there are about 50 paid users that paid 21 sats. Total, about 4000 npubs. It has ZERO inbound or outbound relay replication (true organic mode). Doesn't seem like that would be so popular, why would so many be connecting? Well, I think one answer (of many) is, there is a clear popularity in the connections coming from tor exit nodes (thousands). That's pretty cool! I know amethyst defaults to tor for any outboxing it does, and it's quite possible that nostr21.com and *.nostr1.com are some of the only relays that can serve this kind of traffic because it is optimized *knowing, that IP based naive throttling is only going to cut off access to users that simply want to have some bit of privacy. So the stack is optimized, to serve these low level connections as fast and efficiently as possible in order to provide a reliable amount of service to all. Anyway, I thought that was cool. Hope you enjoyed relay story time.

wow, meshcore really jumped on the bitchat thing.. i wonder what the meshtastic crew has.. 🤔