Arweave has some issues before I want to use it, for one, why do you need another token? Why couldn't you just pay in lightning or bitcoin or monero?

Even if a token is needed, there should be an atomic swap and/or $wAR on liquid or something. 

Also, you said you're trusting the gateway. How do you know the gateway is trustworthy? I'm not aware of any coms channels to talk to the gateway with. 

Lastly, wouldn't the two in combination be ideal? Like a blossom server for a small community that does a weekly/monthly zip and backup to arweave? Or even blossom sever connected to a relay with conditions to save to arweave (x number of likes/zaps/renotes)? 
 

 it's a binding smart contract is the reason they did it.  you're not trusting the gateway, it's the opposite, because it's binding, the payment is post-service.  you can swap it on permaswap, wAR.  Yeah i agree it would be easier if the on-board was better 

 Couldn't they have done something like how liquid works and had the token pegged to bitcoin? 

And aren't you trusting that the gateway doesn't do anything with your ip?  

 They could peg to bitcoin if they had bitcoin reserves, and had a means of enforcing the peg in a decentralized way, which I'd have to research.  Liquid is centralized.

You're trusting the gateway to see the IP in the same way you trust Nostr relays or websites 

 Right, so same amount of trust there for blossom.  

 yes, the same amount of trust on seeing your IP

but not on the payment.  Arweave is programmed to pay out after service.  Blossom is 100% trust

Also with Blossom, you're directly dealing with individuals.  With Arweave, you got the whole protocol, and the server you interact with is an irrelevant commodity.