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There’s nothing guaranteeing that it stays free if all major clients they matter decide they will charge. Especially if relays become part of their core offering.

Yes you can fork and do free but then you’ll just fragment yourself from everyone else.
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Chiefmonkey 2y ago

In a deflationary society with exponential technology wanting to deliver value at ever increasing speeds, all prices will trend to zero

There will be increasing competition to offer more value for less cost

Forgive me... I believe in hyperbitcoinisation 💪... and I'm a fan of #[4]​ 👌

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Jeff Booth 2y ago

This is far more of an interesting conversation than most realize. Business models completely change over time where the best are constantly innovating to provide value for users with them

winning share (and potential revenue and profits) while they do and then moving to provide more value while the previous spot they occupied moves to free.

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Chiefmonkey 2y ago

Gotcha 👍

I think it’s would also be speeded up by the growth of complimentary technologies and social changes

E.G. with the growth of sovereign computing (Umbrel, Start9) the cost of contributing some bandwidth and disk space to the network is hidden in the cost of the node hardware and a monthly broadband subscription

For many it’ll be a privilege and an honour for others their civil duty

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HoloKat 2y ago

What would be the incentive of adding labor to provide a free service? Upsells?