I think if nostr becomes popular with pow, spammers will start specializing, building pow hardware, reselling it, etc. Here is a good summary of what's gonna happen https://twitter.com/alexbosworth/status/1607416845921062917
LN payments for relay is not about a business model IMO, it's precisely about long-term spam protection using a well-built widely adopted pow token, which is Bitcoin.
brugeman
npub1xd…mntxy
2023-01-09 17:49:51
in reply to nevent1q…5ls6
Author Public Key
npub1xdtducdnjerex88gkg2qk2atsdlqsyxqaag4h05jmcpyspqt30wscmntxySeen on
wss://relay.noswhere.comPublished at
2023-01-09 17:49:51Event JSON
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