If anyone could be a relay in a useful way, without permission.
Anyone can be a relay without permission. But no-one else will use their relay without in a useful way. Thus relays are centralized.
To fix this, among other things, nostr needs to find a decentralized spam control mechanism. This _can't_ be based directly on Lightning, as Lightning can't directly prove a sacrifice of funds because it can't prove that a payment actually happened.
You could use lightning for an indirect proof of sacrifice though, eg aggregating multiple parties in a merkle sum tree under a BTC proof of sacrifice.
pkt / Peter Todd
npub1ej…3ndrm
2024-01-19 15:04:53
in reply to nevent1q…yu34
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npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrmPublished at
2024-01-19 15:04:53Event JSON
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