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 First off, I want to say, thank you so much for using relay.tools!  If you are receiving this you are an early adopter and have helped the site grow!

The billing system is now live.  To top-up your balance or view your orders, please visit https://relay.tools/invoices

The way the balance is calculated is per-month since the relay was created.  Due to bitcoin going on a massive run, monthly cost has been adjusted to 12,000 sats/month.  The balances have been dynamically adjusted retroactively to reflect this.  For many, the balance may seem like a lot, this means your relay has been running a long time and I have never previously billed you for it other than the initial invoice.

So, I'd also like to offer some relay credits to you as an early adopter.  Your homework is to attempt to use the new support system to give me some feedback.  https://support.nostr1.com

If you do this, it will help me see which relays are active and which are not and I appreciate this very much.  You can also ignore this and just top-up your balance.  In the coming month, I will be looking for relays that haven't topped up or given feedback and pausing those relays.

Thanks again for using relay.tools I look forward to hearing from you.
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 Hi Arkinox, how's it going? 
 Good. You tagged me in your post 🫡 not sure why 
 Oh, did you sign up for relays at relay.tools?  I show you as the owner of a few of them.  Could be someone else signed up for you..  You should be able to see them if you login.. Let me know what you'd like to do with them. 
 Yeah I have a few relays. Might only keep one though. Thanks for the info 
 Kindof odd to post a kind1 instead of a dm 🤔 
 Yeah, I know it seems weird, but nostr DMs are not private or secure, are buggy between clients, and are a scam vector so after much deliberation on this I decided kind 1 is best for now.  The support over kind 1 will only send generic notifications and never any invoices or mention your relay names.  Nor will it send any unsolicited DMs.  Until nostr clients can get their act together with DMs I will also provide private support contact via SimpleX if you prefer.  Link added to bio: https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-4&smp=smp%3A%2F%2Fhpq7_4gGJiilmz5Rf-CswuU5kZGkm_zOIooSw6yALRg%3D%40smp5.simplex.im%2FzX4eE_HKlVxCEsHN0R8s86QObYRJlTGi%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAaEIzOEa8y4wFMe9Yk0-KkhDKFMGklws1hP9ztyilZkk%253D%26srv%3Djjbyvoemxysm7qxap7m5d5m35jzv5qq6gnlv7s4rsn7tdwwmuqciwpid.onion

This is good feedback, you can delete the relays you don't want and if you top up I will add some credits to your account for taking the time.  Thanks!