We need economic models that work or we’ll end up becoming the product. All notes should be zaps.
-pay relay micro fees to post note
-pay for note durability (note saving)
-lightning prisms for multi-relay reach/durability
People freely zap memes, ALLCAP shitposts, AI hallucinations, and sad stories. It’s time to pay for the servers to scale Nostr. No subscriptions just zap-to-relay posting. This free shit is socialism in disguise 🥸
PAID RELAYS MAKE SENSE TO ME. THERE WILL LIKELY BE A COMBO OF PAID, FREE, AND SMALL COMMUNITY RELAYS.
And VC backed?
TEN31 IS NOT A TYPICAL VC. WE DO NOT EXPECT INFINITE MONEY. NEITHER DO THE FOUNDERS WE SUPPORT. BITCOIN CASH FLOW IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT METRIC.
II would ve cool II you could open Ten31 to a broader audience of investors, many II us would be interested!! 👊
We need to define the incentives of the Nostr ecosystem architecture now and the VCs and entrepreneurs will join if they see value.
Follow the Satoshi way: Define the incentives, support the early network, then step back and let the free market reign.
nobody wants to hand out their payment details, especially to an unknown server on a little used network.
Payment details? Just zap a 1000 sat invoice every once in a while. We need to breakdown basic cost per zap for running nodes and it will probably be less than 0.1 sat per post, 1sat/note/month for note durability and further charges for image upload. A few market can develop and clients can dynamically choose relays based on fees and reach to followers. None of this will be expensive but building the incentives right will create innovation on the infrastructure side not just the UI/client.
*fee market* not few market
Then along comes a capitalist who will just pay for the users, and there they are already a product and he is the biggest player 👍
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Users freely decide what resources they utilize on the Nostr. It’s a protocol. Many lovely and terrible things will evolve here. If Coca Cola wants to host a free relay, and feed you corn syrup ads all day, you can use their relay (or not). True free market dynamics will rule in an unregulated protocol.
nobody (well, almost nobody) wants to pay a centralised authority to use social media, those that do already pay Elon Musk. Nostr is losing its mojo because its incompatible with capitalist greed.
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