I think an "as global as possible" state will always lend itself to attractive monetisation, despite the costs, and as long as the network is alive and of interest to enough people.
There are 16k trusted pubkeys writing events daily according to nostr.band stats. Odell the other day said there are 10k Primal users active daily, also trusted in some way I guess. Assuming most of those Primal users don't jump between clients (low-key Twitter style usage) and taking into account that Primal is one of the few clients that has a monetisation model (in this case subscription), I'd estimate that of the total amount of actual business revenue being generated on Nostr today, Primal accounts for around 80% of it (The rest being split between Damus, nostr.wine, relay.tools and a bucket of others.) Total back of the napkin calculation there, but whatever the number is in reality it'll not be a modest one.
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npub1hy…wtqnx
2025-04-04 10:52:09
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npub1hyxredcavc6ruqgsf4wf4hmakpwnvefmzaspl7dja6a2sxlx0q3sxwtqnxPublished at
2025-04-04 10:52:09Event JSON
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