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Is anyone working on ecash relays? Here's what I mean: instead of paying for a subscription to a relay, what if a min amount of ecash has to be attached to a note for the relay to accept it? (locked to the relay npub of course) Is this already a thing?

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I think it's a dead end because now all clients would have to be patched to include this or they wouldn't work in this relay. It's probably better to have the relay host an HTML page where people can buy "credits" and then use these normally. Later clients that want to can include streamlined buy-and-use flows for these credits by talking to some HTTP API provided by the relay which can hopefully be standardized.
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But I think it could be pretty good. The first time I thought about it was in the context of making a comment widget for a website that used Nostr notes. Because this stuff would be filled with spam and because visitors -- both readers and commenters -- were not likely to have Nostr accounts. Turns out many use cases are similar.
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A good community-spec can make this work. As communities can be proxies for relays and perform exactly the functions @Gigi descrobes (Archive, etc...). Makes you not run into the backwards-compatibilty trap. And something like #communikeys gives the admins and the apps build on it the option to handle separate prices/conditions for each content-type.