Hi, I am one of the co-founders of Blurt. I am glad you found our tokenomics interesting. There is a funny story behind the fees, at first we launched without fees but one week into launch someone posted thousands of dick pics all up and down trending to try derail the launch, one of the other social chains must have been threatened.

We added fees within two weeks and never looked back, witnesses can change fees higher if we get under siege and thus drain the automated attacker’s account.

Fees are small but they make you think whether an action or content is just spam, on other graphene chains we have annoyances like continual unvoting and voting of witnesses to try bloat the chain, Hive now requires 1 TB discs to be run by witnesses, Blurt however is small enough to operate on a raspberry pi with a 64gb ssd card, maybe even a 32gb.

Fees go to null (burn) but we want to in the next HF redirect them to witnesses because it is they who run the nodes and need to upgrade as network demand increases.

On Ethereum people are paying like $150 in fees or more to mint NFT’s so the small Blurt fees are more akin to Matic or Fantom layer-2’s