@alex there've been bot-related costs and malicious traffic for as long as i can remember, but this feels like it's intensified massively everywhere. it gets harder and harder to imagine a network where public-by-default keeps being a viable approach.

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@brennen @alex Isn't this inevitable with unmetered Internet connections available to "everybody"? Isn't the only way to make clients/peers pay the server/peer per access? Micropayments ... that failed, but cryptocurrency hasn't :-( maybe is on to something.

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