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PABLOF7z · 146w
NIP Draft: Data Vending Machine https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/67e950a2009e81df1b8c91b0a2ade0596e83f168/vending-machine.md This is a WIP proposal for the "Data Vending Machine" NIP.
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Help me see what I’m missing…

Wouldn’t it be a massive negative freeroll for a service provider to participate in this? They are expected to complete work that is usually prepaid prior to being paid with no guarantee that their result will even be “accepted” let alone compensated. And the result is available publicly for anyone else to use for free in perpetuity?
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JeffG · 146w
nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft this is where my brain went immediately first too...
PABLOF7z · 146w
yes service providers will assess/price risk or go bankrupt Service providers would choose whom to serve, and at what price. Companies have been managing risk for centuries, it's not new, and reputation analysis is trivial with a public history of npub's behavior (a service like nostr:npub1xdtduc...