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+# Chorus
+
+Chorus is a nostr relay in development
+
+Development is early and rapid. This is NOT ready to use by any stretch of the imagination.
+
+## Plans
+
+High performance due to:
+
+- Rust language
+- Asynchronous multithreading
+- Memory mapped storage
+- Event memory map is almost lock-free (limited to one writer at a time)
+- Direct indexing: indices yield the memory offset of the event, not an ID that requires another lookup
+- LMDB used for indexes
+- In-place zero-copy event field access (does not require deserialization)
+- Custom JSON parsing without memory allocation
+
+Simple to deploy due to:
+
+- Being the webserver and the relay for standalone deployment
+- TLS optional, to support both standalone and behind-proxy deployment
+- Just a single configuration file
+- systemd and nginx setups contributed
+
+Flexible nostr usage:
+
+- Can use as personal relay, inbox, DM inbox, etc, with flexible rules around access
+
+## Not Planned (yet)
+
+Bitcoin/Lightning integration:
+
+- I don't plan to add this any time soon.
+- You won't be able to charge for service.