Is there any plans on creating incentives to keep relays up and running? They look like LN routing nodes and maybe it makes sense to monetize them...
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seems like with small start up things like this, usually you want to get people really on the platform before trying to be too heavy handed with montezation. Unless there was a way that people didn't find unintrusive and didn't turn them away.
Maybe some relays could charge microfees for connection or maybe they could charge for each note posted. 1 sat/post would be really acceptable and would prevent spam...
that seems reasonable. And yea to prevent spam makes sense. I just think you'd create a lot more resistance for adoption this early in the game.
Yes, this is basically the way stacker.news handles monetization. It sucks that people have to pay to speak though, especially if no one runs free relays. You could also have companies sponsoring relays to keep them open and free for everyone to write to.
definitely an opportunity for paying for extremely-high-performant relays with LN.
i would pay $4/month (and 12 months up front) to have access to a relay that guarantees vicious uptime
All day long.
relays are free to monetize however they’d like. @fiatjaf has an example on GitHub already that charges sats to be able to publish to that relay.
Yes, that's exactly what I thought. Prevents spam and gives the "node" runner an incentive to keep it up and running...
Is there benefit to publishing to a specific relay?
decentralize the network. Damus’ relay is having scaling issues. If we spread the load around more evenly everything will load more quickly for all users.
Well, as a solution for today, you could charge a fee and whitelist paying pubkeys for example.