&quot;Note I said &quot;or&quot; there. Decentralizing the infrastructure would make things cheaper and might give you revenue opportunity (and growth) that you wouldn&#x27;t have otherwise. For example, perhaps you get into the business of aggregating ad sales to downstream providers.&quot;<p>Well, maybe, but you can&#x27;t save your way to $2b in revenue. Stock prices don&#x27;t generally go up on cost savings, they go up because of future revenue AND profit expectations. Silicon Valley and Wall Street both prize growth in revenue way over profit. But you&#x27;re correct that they might discover another revenue stream - but now you&#x27;re betting a lot on the value of federation.<p>&quot;Make a payment to the address, then start querying at 50MB&#x2F;sec for the duration of your valid token (in this example, 2 hours):&quot;<p>I think you are vastly overstating the number of people or companies that would be willing to pay for this firehose. While it may be useful to some companies, overall the data isn&#x27;t likely to be enough to be a $1b opportunity. More importantly, the number of people willing to buy isn&#x27;t likely to grow - so a B2B play can be a minor part of their revenue but I don&#x27;t believe they&#x27;d be able to depend on it for massive growth.<p>&quot;And yes, I&#x27;m proposing Twitter should use Bitcoin to monetize query traffic. Even better, charge people for posting lots of statuses, or following and unfollowing lots of people. Link ask price to signal&#x2F;noise ratio.&quot;<p>Given the current cost structure of other services (Facebook&#x2F;Instagram&#x2F;SnapChat), I&#x27;d argue you&#x27;re unlikely to get anyone to pay for it, and you&#x27;re reducing both the size and any potential growth of your audience dramatically.