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It's true that paid relays can lie, but I feel the market should sort itself out. It doesn't have the same allure as an altcoin because there's no concept of a relay going "to the moon." You just might get decent speed and low spam, which is actually quite boring and not something people will put a ton of money into.

Essentially what makes altcoins so nefarious is that there's a greater fool theory at work that can end up justifying any price. This isn't the case in most markets, including ones for relays.

Derek Ross 2y ago

It's not about mooning, it's about getting scammed, paying 20K sats to use a relay and then a week later getting rugged. This potential exists. We as a community need to not just add every single paid relay that pops up. They need vetted. We need to build our Web-of-Trust.

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threeseries 2y ago

Yeah my point is that this is just how paying for stuff works. You don't always get what you pay for, and markets tend to sort these kinds of things out, especially when what's being sold is a commodity (relays are easily commoditized).

Reputation will build organically and risk of being scammed seems very low to me given the small price people will be willing to pay for spam filtering.