I just cannot imagine monetization on Nostr yet. Most people aren't used to pay, to store their data. You can reason as much as you want, they will still prefer the 0-cost alternative.

And with the number of "premium" relays growing, many users will find themselves locked-out.

Can't we come-up with some sort of network funding? Where ultimately ~5% of the users, pay for 100% of the infastructure? A bucket, that's split among relay / proxy and storage operators, based on the capacity they provide (and process).

Sourcehut does something like this.

Whoop whoop! Our #Bitcoin company, generalbytes.com is 10 years old this year! So proud of what the team has achieved!

Many innovations in the industry like the first to enable NFC (implant and card) payments, the most popular bitcoin ATMs globally, (according to independent resource coinatmradar.com) point of sale terminals (POS) for Bitcoin and lightning payments, vending machine solutions using Bitcoin and #lightning and so many other things I just can't fit into a single note.

Cheers 🥂 to the next decade! Like this note and I'll convince them to move their social media to #Nostr. 😉

I found out what my son did to orange pill his friend! Apparently the kid already liked learning about "cryptocurrency" but Logan taught him the differences and told him to be Bitcoin only and why it's better. He then got this kid to download Wallet of Satoshi and sent him $5 worth of sats over the Lightning network from his own wallet. The kid asked how he could get more bitcoin in the future. Logan told him to give him cash and he would send him the sats for it. Peer-2-Peer local bitcoin exchanges happening live in person at school in homeroom 🤣 Love it!

I checked LNbits, yep, Logan sent him 18K sats to get the kid started. So proud.