Ecash payments don’t work. Relays being paid per connection or per event is not a sustainable model as the cost for the operatoe is mostly the same even if you post 50 times a day or 1.

And $0.5/mo doesn’t work unless you have millions and millions of users that all pay *to a single service*.

No one selling it for that cheap will provide you a quality service.

You also can’t reach the required scale for economies of scale without people paying for relays *now*.