Because it is the highest value you can reasonably do without making the experience of many users miserable.
And regardless, PoW only burns money, while being very cheap for spammers.
Paid relays fix this problem in a better way by not slowing your client to a crawl on every action you take, and actually funding the people dealing with spam.
semisol
npub122…cgrkj
2026-06-07 15:50:37 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…jpkg
Author Public Key
npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkjPublished at
2026-06-07 15:50:37 UTCEvent JSON
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