That will be up to relays and clients. I can see in the very near future some relays having value adds and charge for messages and for storage.
Discussion
Note that Tor works without “incentives” or charging for messages…it is a different system but that is something to consider.
I would say that has been donation funded though. Which is great but has it's sustainability pit falls.
It is very generous of you to say that TOR works.
As of today…. 11,205 out of total 15,965 Lightning nodes are Tor Onion Service Nodes…yes, it is choppy and needs much improvement.
Source of the stats : https://1ml.com/statistics
Why are those nodes on TOR rather than on clearnet ?
Do you want the whole world know your ip of your node and how many times your ip broadcast tx?
“Kinda” works (super slowly). We need better (incentives).
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