surely that the payment model evolves to directly price in a margin on storage?
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Yes could be. Today we have archival + discovery + antispam all jumbled up in the same relay services. I guess over time the market evolves to some specialists in long term storage (different duration options? Just your own home relay?), some in discovery (we will host anyone for 20 sats but delete after 1 week) etc
I think more importantly people are just experimenting on both the producer and consumer sides and nobody has enough data yet to know what will be sustainably profitable.
(it’s almost as if the entire thesis of Bitcoin Is Venice is god damn profound …🤔🥲)
Finally, a free market!!
I’m concerned though that we’ll see natural centralisation of data as the costs are hidden, socialised, and delayed until catastrophic problems. People say similar about Lightning.
But as there, at least you can be completely sovereign if you want.