jleger2023 on Nostr: Spammers won't pay. Operators of paid relays have a financial incentive to stop spam, ...

Spammers won't pay. Operators of paid relays have a financial incentive to stop spam, and will quickly block spammers, which means the spammer will have to pay again, and again, and again and will get no return because of it. It removes the incentive to spam. Spamming is incredibly inefficient, so it only works when it's free or insanely cheap to spam. That's why email has so much spam while so little (comparatively) gets sent to mobiles via text messages. It costs money to mass text, so the economic incentive isn't there.