Yeah, imagine you are a new relay. First thing to do is join a pool that isn’t full so you can get some connections and paid for offering the service.
Some pools may choose to be free but that is unsustainable.
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I wonder how you handle bad relays. missing data, dropped events, etc. 🤔
I guess that would be up to the pools themselves, what kind of quality they want to offer. But I do see metrics being measured by the pool to figure out if a relay is at the very least up and serving connections. And ofc if the pool takes payment a way to disclose the revenue and splits among member relays.
