Exploring the Nostr Ecosystem: A Study of Decentralization and Resilience

This arXiv paper analyzes decentralization, availability, and replication overhead in the Nostr social network.

arxiv.org/abs/2402.05709
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This page is the arXiv abstract page for the paper “An Empirical Analysis of the Nostr Social Network: Decentralization, Availability, and Replication Overhead” by Yiluo Wei and Gareth Tyson. Submitted in February 2024 and revised in September 2025, it was accepted to CoNEXT ’25. The paper examines Nostr, a decentralized micro-blogging network launched in 2022 that uses relays as storage servers and public keys for user identity.

The abstract describes how posts are replicated across multiple relays to support availability and censorship resistance, and discusses challenges around relay availability, financial sustainability of free-to-use relays, and replication overhead. The study focuses on relays and post replication strategies and proposes two methods to reduce overhead during replication and retrieval.

On this page you can read the abstract, view the PDF, open the experimental HTML version, access the TeX source, and export citation data. It suits students, researchers, and readers interested in decentralized social networks, social and information networks, and Nostr infrastructure.

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It presents the abstract and access links for a paper analyzing Nostr relays, decentralization, availability, and replication overhead.
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