Counterpoint: It’s not the payment method that is stopping people from supporting relays. It’s that people don’t like paying for them at all.
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As a relay operator, this is the issue. No one wants to actually pay.
@nostr.land is already working on these so called use cases “which paid relay operators are not incentivized to support” without needing ecash.
No one wants to pay for relays or media hosting until it bites them in the ass.
Many things, like the <$0.5/mo price figure listed on the post, are examples of people’s price expectations for a premium service.
These prices are simply unsustainable for relay operators unless there is more demand (that is larger than the current usercount of Nostr).
Yup. And I think eventually we'll see primal, Damus, Yakihonne, etc clients that run their own relays eventually bake it into their premium plans. Primal already did this with nip05 and media.
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