I have another question. Who is going to pay? Relays can't work for free with all the load they handle. And what will happen if we start paying for website access. But at least there won't be DNS issues 🤭

Idk, who's paying for your post right now? I'm going to use this for Cashu which is very low-bandwith so none of this will matter.

using a relay for mostly small notes as a network tranport is a dumb idea unless you can make people pay for this use case in which case specialist nodes will be made just for doing this creating a websocket based for-pay relay scheme could actually work for short messages though, just need to wrap the events in three layers for each hop and a payment nut in each one for the relaying service and no spam problem and anonymous relaying

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"Should" is bound to my own expressed opinions, I'm not in charge.

it must use micro accounts, you can't pay as you go without revealing yourself

GitHub

GitHub - indra-labs/indra: Distributed Virtual Private Network Powered By Bitcoin Lightning

Distributed Virtual Private Network Powered By Bitcoin Lightning - indra-labs/indra

has a heap of code around accounting and the layered encryption required the sender provides the keys as the payment preimage over lightning ah yes, it does require you to run somewhat unconventionally configured lightning nodes that can receive keysend/AMP payments, this isolates the payment from the user's location via TLV onions of LN

I've had those shoulds all my life.

it's a mostly complete implementation, there's nothing really stopping you scooping out parts of it, it was designed as a full blown network transport but anonymised relaying is a subset of what it is capable