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I have fears about building on Nostr because the future of relay-running without clear financial incentives makes the network appear unsustainable to me. Has there been any noise in the space discussing how this could be achieved? I remember reading the Damus relay was going to get shut down but did that actually ever happen? I hope that gets figured out though since a big player like that monetizing and turning a profit (or even breaking even) could do a lot for the space.
What would be really useful to me is a survey of all decentralized protocols to get high level signals into what is worth investing time into. I'm not saying it's not Nostr, but I haven't seen much discussion on the business side of things regarding relay operation when I think it should be the next main area of focus for Nostr development. Maybe a hackathon using this as a topic would help.
There are already paid relays like nostr.wine out there in case you didn't know
But I guess and hope this isn't the pinnacle of business models built on top of nostr
I didn't know about nostr.wine but it's definitely a step in the right direction!
Well, I guess many relay operators will be incentivized by wanting their particular business or functionality on the network. However, I wonder if some kind of auto-zapping of a very small fee for posting content, or zap revenue sharing from content creators could have potential.
GM!
Still sick today sadly but work continues nonetheless! Today I'm planning my potential pleblab top builder project https://www.topbuilder.dev/
I want to build a course/bootcamp platform that interoperates with nostr. I'll need to be able to pull in videos (most likely hosted on YouTube) and allow users to organize them into a course, resource, or bootcamp structure (which is basically just an ordered hierarchy of materials) I'll just say this is something I want to have in good condition for plebdevs over the next 6 months 🤫
We're also having a top builder takeover at the Austin Bitcoin Club tonight! Have you thought about joining, is there anything you would like to build?