special built relays can receive onion-encrypted notes, you as the sender decide the path, like:
relay1 -> relay2 -> relay3 -> destination
each relay can only see who they got data from and who to send it to (except for the destination, which contains the plaintext note). this makes it possible to anonymously send notes without any relay knowing who you are by your ip address or anything like that.
and in exchange for routing the note to the next destination and unwrapping the onion, so to say, there's a small cashu token included in every layer, so the onion relays make money for their trouble, so to speak.
this is useful for stuff like DMs, or a nutzap wallet, because a malicious relay could technically figure out who you are by your IP address even if you use different nsecs.
Danny Morabito
npub1ve…xddfh
2025-05-21 09:28:22
in reply to nevent1q…2auw
Author Public Key
npub1ven4zk8xxw873876gx8y9g9l9fazkye9qnwnglcptgvfwxmygscqsxddfhPublished at
2025-05-21 09:28:22Event JSON
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"created_at": 1747819702,
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"content": "special built relays can receive onion-encrypted notes, you as the sender decide the path, like:\n\nrelay1 -\u003e relay2 -\u003e relay3 -\u003e destination\n\neach relay can only see who they got data from and who to send it to (except for the destination, which contains the plaintext note). this makes it possible to anonymously send notes without any relay knowing who you are by your ip address or anything like that.\n\nand in exchange for routing the note to the next destination and unwrapping the onion, so to say, there's a small cashu token included in every layer, so the onion relays make money for their trouble, so to speak.\n\nthis is useful for stuff like DMs, or a nutzap wallet, because a malicious relay could technically figure out who you are by your IP address even if you use different nsecs.",
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}