interesting! i was thinking of ways to incentivize the relay with timelocked ecash
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could pair the note with ecash locked to the relay operator's pubkey and a timelock spending condition. viola! pay as you go service
viola! 🎻
that could work but would require significant amount of updates on clients and relays, and relays could also be incentivised to rugpull. I just thought of this because it is very trivial and the fact that relays keep relaying events with future dates in all reqs is sort of a bug… this would also fix that behaviour.
Yeah the ecash idea would require the mint to be aware of nostr events and poll for them periodically to ensure the relay doesn't broadcast too early or too late.