{"id":2831,"date":"2025-06-05T15:10:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2025-06-05T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T18:12:14","slug":"how-many-nostr-relays-do-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/?p=2831","title":{"rendered":"How many nostr relays do you need?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It turns out the reason my Amethyst client was so slow was because I had about 40 relays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve reduced it to 10 relays now, and I haven\u2019t experienced any slowdowns or crashes. I think I should aim to remove another 5 relays. Not sure what I was thinking when I added 40 in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ChatGPT agrees that this was the issue and explained it to me in full technical details and suggests I reduce it further to an ideal number of 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/media.letsfo.com\/image\/nostr-relay-optimization.yDmn\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.letsfo.com\/images\/2025\/06\/03\/nostr-relay-optimization.webp\" alt=\"nostr relay optimization\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n<p>\n    Note ID:\n    <br>\n    <code id=\"nostrNote\" style=\"word-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal;\">note1a8vkuxhunvpstrr5tdshm7redvnwp5t6sgq7mdrk7qvumfdxyxmss407a4\n    <\/code>\n    <br>\n    <button onclick=\"copyToClipboard('nostrNote')\">Copy<\/button>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/btcpay.letsfo.com\/apps\/cyXxp1RKxQnN8bpQJjvwSEHjXbP\/pos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/images\/zapmar.png\"><\/a>Post#391\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out the reason my Amethyst client was so slow was because I had about 40 relays. I&#8217;ve reduced it to 10 relays now,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/uploader\/images\/2025\/06\/03\/nostr-relay-optimization.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[300,105,510,260],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media","tag-amethyst","tag-nostr","tag-nostr-relays","tag-relays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}