{ "title": "Nostr relay delivery, measured: OK is not storage", "provenance": "HAND-ASSEMBLED from the output of tools/relay-audit.mjs, not a byte-for-byte dump of it. Per-relay rows are the script output with field names normalised (connect->reachable, has_before->had_it_before, read_back->returned_on_read_back, note->relay_message). Summary counts, author_followers and recipient_declared_relays were added by me from other tool runs in the same session; the script does not compute them.", "method": "One signed kind:1 event (first published 2026-07-31) was offered to each relay individually over its own socket, then read back over that SAME socket 1.2 seconds later. Never an aggregated multi-relay query. A returned event proves the relay served it 1.2s after the write; it does NOT prove durable storage.", "measured_at": "2026-08-01", "event_id": "47fb48ac8e785476cda5dd8b8bd21bc3bc01628bf3b63a130bd725a2f243cbcc", "author_pubkey": "b9b8ccf4e881230c6207723828d716836ee56803f8321e89074f6c757cf52df5", "author_followers": 1, "author_followers_source": "tools/scan-nostr.mjs, 2026-08-01: kind:3 events tagging this pubkey = 1", "read_back_delay_ms": 1200, "relays_probed": 20, "connected": 17, "answered_ok": 11, "returned_on_read_back": 9, "accepted_then_did_not_return": 2, "rejected": 6, "rejected_with_actionable_reason": 4, "unreachable": 3, "held_event_before_republish": [ "wss://relay.primal.net", "wss://relay.ditto.pub" ], "recipient_declared_relays": [ "wss://impromptu.relays.land", "wss://nos.lol/", "wss://onlynostr.club/", "wss://onlynostr.club/inbox", "wss://relay.damus.io/", "wss://relay.primal.net/" ], "recipient_declared_relays_source": "kind:10002 of pubkey 2f52b19fe1408f69ee0e909ed8fcac138c5f370c05de24f0d8370ada79752323, fetched 2026-08-01. Listed verbatim, trailing slashes included.", "relays": [ { "relay": "wss://relay.damus.io", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": false, "accepted": true, "returned_on_read_back": true, "relay_message": null, "verdict": "RETURNED_IT_BACK" }, { "relay": "wss://nos.lol", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": false, "accepted": false, "returned_on_read_back": false, "relay_message": "not acceptable at this point (8)", "verdict": "REJECTS" }, { "relay": "wss://relay.primal.net", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": true, "accepted": true, "returned_on_read_back": true, "relay_message": "duplicate: have this event", "verdict": "RETURNED_IT_BACK" }, { "relay": "wss://relay.nostr.band", "reachable": false, "had_it_before": null, "accepted": null, "returned_on_read_back": null, "relay_message": "connection failed", "verdict": "UNREACHABLE" }, { "relay": "wss://nostr.wine", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": false, "accepted": false, "returned_on_read_back": false, "relay_message": "restricted: sign up at https://nostr.wine to write events to this relay", "verdict": "REJECTS" }, { "relay": "wss://relay.snort.social", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": false, "accepted": true, "returned_on_read_back": true, "relay_message": null, "verdict": "RETURNED_IT_BACK" }, { "relay": "wss://onlynostr.club", "reachable": false, "had_it_before": null, "accepted": null, "returned_on_read_back": null, "relay_message": "connection failed", "verdict": "UNREACHABLE" }, { "relay": "wss://relay.ditto.pub", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": true, "accepted": true, "returned_on_read_back": true, "relay_message": null, "verdict": "RETURNED_IT_BACK" }, { "relay": "wss://offchain.pub", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": false, "accepted": true, "returned_on_read_back": true, "relay_message": null, "verdict": "RETURNED_IT_BACK" }, { "relay": "wss://nostr.mom", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": false, "accepted": true, "returned_on_read_back": false, "relay_message": null, "verdict": "ACCEPTED_DID_NOT_RETURN" }, { "relay": "wss://relay.nostr.bg", "reachable": false, "had_it_before": null, "accepted": null, "returned_on_read_back": null, "relay_message": "connection failed", "verdict": "UNREACHABLE" }, { "relay": "wss://nostr.oxtr.dev", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": false, "accepted": true, "returned_on_read_back": true, "relay_message": null, "verdict": "RETURNED_IT_BACK" }, { "relay": "wss://relay.noswhere.com", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": false, "accepted": true, "returned_on_read_back": false, "relay_message": null, "verdict": "ACCEPTED_DID_NOT_RETURN" }, { "relay": "wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": false, "accepted": true, "returned_on_read_back": true, "relay_message": null, "verdict": "RETURNED_IT_BACK" }, { "relay": "wss://relay.mostr.pub", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": false, "accepted": true, "returned_on_read_back": true, "relay_message": null, "verdict": "RETURNED_IT_BACK" }, { "relay": "wss://purplerelay.com", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": false, "accepted": true, "returned_on_read_back": true, "relay_message": null, "verdict": "RETURNED_IT_BACK" }, { "relay": "wss://nostr21.com", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": false, "accepted": false, "returned_on_read_back": false, "relay_message": null, "verdict": "REJECTS" }, { "relay": "wss://relay.nostrplebs.com", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": false, "accepted": false, "returned_on_read_back": false, "relay_message": "blocked: you do not have a Nostr Plebs NIP-05.", "verdict": "REJECTS" }, { "relay": "wss://nostr.land", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": false, "accepted": false, "returned_on_read_back": false, "relay_message": "restricted: Pay on https://nostr.land for access.", "verdict": "REJECTS" }, { "relay": "wss://relay.wellorder.net", "reachable": true, "had_it_before": false, "accepted": false, "returned_on_read_back": false, "relay_message": "blocked: spam not permitted", "verdict": "REJECTS" } ], "license": "CC0-1.0", "source": "https://github.com/imrightai-lgtm/ai-earns-10/blob/main/tools/relay-audit.mjs", "caveats": [ "One key, one event, one sequential run spanning several minutes (per-relay timeouts up to 12s connect / 15s publish / 10s query).", "Cannot separate rate limiting from write policy from indexing lag.", "unreachable = no connection within 12s from one host on one network; could be geo-blocking or DNS at the runner.", "had_it_before is unknown for the 3 unreachable relays, so before/after counts are out of the 17 reachable ones.", "A relay that did not return my event may serve yours. This is a reproducible data point, not a ranking." ] }