NostrRelay

Links

• Nostr Relay
  • https://github.com/lnbits/nostrrelay
  • It is a module for running in LNbits: https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits
• FastAPI (web app toolkit used by Nostr Relay)
  • Broadly similar to Flask - web app toolkit
  • Built for production speed (typechecking in Rust, Starlette asynchronous gateway interface (ASGI))
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastAPI
  • https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
• ASGI Based (FastAPI apps run inside an ASGI server)
  • WSGI is synchronous (as opposed to asyncio, for example), so it does not do websockets and other long-connection things well.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Server_Gateway_Interface
  • Uvicorn
    • https://github.com/encode/uvicorn
    • https://www.uvicorn.org/
• Lightning
  • Bitcoin micropayment network.
  • About $0.01 per transaction.
  • https://coincharge.io/en/how-much-does-a-lightning-payment-cost/
  • Sats (Satoshis) are BTC/100,000,000 (100mm)