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>How is the infrastructure and bandwidth paid for?

For bandwidth intensive usage such as video, it will probably be "paid relays" instead of free ones. Click on url in the "Popular paid relays" paragraph to see examples:

https://nostr.how/en/relays

Nostr is popular with the cryptocurrency community so the payment mechanics seem to favor Bitcoin and/or Bitcoin Lightning.

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It's really not popular at all and it's growing linearly in terms of users (death sentence for a social) yet completely flat (suspiciously flat in my opinion) in terms of adoption.

https://stats.nostr.band/

Nostr is only popular with Bitcoin maxis. Nobody else cares about Nostr.

Its popular with people who understand the importance of decentralisation

Right. And that is why Stella Assange and Matt Taibbi are on there... because they are bitcoin maxis. /s

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