May the force be with you always 💜 I think we need an open field to encourage more users to join Nostr ie free relays + no Bitcoin pre-requisite. We need more users if we want relay economy to work (and eventually they will use Bitcoin for zaps). What would an avg cost of managing per relay per month be like ? A rough estimate based on no of user + infrastructures + utility + average time (good + bad days). Say average cost is $2k USD , abt 7.3M sats. If you charge a one time fee of 5k sats, you need 1,500 new users per month just to break even. Number might seem high now but social media going viral can have user growth of 150% YoY. Twitter has >300M users. I think the user adoption is going to be crucial next few months. I also think relay branding helps. Say Nos already has a wide user base and eventually you want to set up paid relays, for example : - Nos VIP - Nos exclusive - interest-based , - private relays with celebrities, - Personalised relay rental services? 🤷‍♀️ When you have wide user who love your brand, it’s gonna be easier present them these options and convert them to charging users later on be it monthly, annually, one time fee etc I think relay economics can go wild, and definitely profitable but need to strategise and get the users in first. And relay branding and marketing. I also think it would really help if relay devs can make it simple and no brainer, and even make users feel special when it comes to needing to select relays. So that instead of users feeling like it’s an extra step or a stumbling block, they get excited abt it. Relay economics will work as users grow 🫂