diff --git a/src/signer.rs b/src/signer.rs
index 84e8d7a..303bccd 100644
--- a/src/signer.rs
+++ b/src/signer.rs
@@ -626,7 +626,11 @@ async fn run_sign_task(signer: Signer, app: Arc<tokio::sync::Mutex<App>>, uri: C
         }
     };
 
-    // 3. Connect to the client's relays.
+    // 3. Connect to the client's relays. The notification stream is opened
+    // BEFORE anything is sent or subscribed: the client acknowledges our
+    // announcement within milliseconds, and a receiver created afterwards
+    // would miss those early messages (tokio broadcast semantics), leaving
+    // the client waiting forever for a reply.
     let client = Client::new(keys.clone());
     for url in &uri.relays {
         if let Err(err) = client.add_relay(url.to_string()).await {
@@ -634,6 +638,7 @@ async fn run_sign_task(signer: Signer, app: Arc<tokio::sync::Mutex<App>>, uri: C
             return;
         }
     }
+    let mut notifications = client.notifications();
     client.connect().await;
     client.wait_for_connection(CONNECT_TIMEOUT).await;
 
@@ -651,7 +656,6 @@ async fn run_sign_task(signer: Signer, app: Arc<tokio::sync::Mutex<App>>, uri: C
     }
 
     // 6. Answer requests until the connection goes away or we are stopped.
-    let mut notifications = client.notifications();
     loop {
         let notification = match notifications.recv().await {
             Ok(notification) => notification,