Why do you want to impose that a relay should be self sustaining?
You prevent companies from subsidizing relays, communities from running theirs for free, people who think ecash is crap from participating, etc.
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Plus, it assumes a fixed set of relays for each publication.
And what about the (more expensive) blossom media?
Etc...
Stamps are great for letters.
They suck for :90percent: of other use cases.
Like how are you gonna stamp an :app: App Release?
Stamp an app release with 10,000 sats, scam users for 100,000 , sounds like a sustainable business
What can I say, financial health matters. Clearly where things are at now is not in a place of financial health.
You need a fixed reimbursement mechanism at the end of the day, for the lowest level infra only, but still there. Black and white. No confusion, no blind trust in the miracle of value for value. Companies and communities can subsidise on top of that, they can throw around relay-locked sats like confetti, they can invest in other things.
If not you get a situation where a few players invest in better rails and then capture the bulk of the revenue. This more or less always happens.