That said, we're in a bit of a goofy situation where operators of paid relays are collectively incentivised to forever-spam unpaid relays.
Shows how important it is to weave financial incentives into the protocol base layer. (I think BitTorrent of all things shows the way there.)
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2025-06-03 19:51:04
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