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		garbanz0 on Nov 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tea: A new package manager from the creator of bre... I'm guessing the people publishing the package need to pay gas fees? Not ideal since people make packages as a labor of love. Maybe a community fund to pay gas fees would work.

duskwuff on Nov 20, 2022 | [–]

Not even just gas fees -- the publishers have to outright pay to get a package added:

> Specifically, the package maintainer must:

> [...] Contribute to the package’s reputation and trustworthiness by steeping tea tokens.

https://github.com/teaxyz/white-paper/blob/main/white-paper....

RL_Quine on Nov 20, 2022 | [–]

It's not ethereum, it's some other bespoke blockchain to issue NFTs on.

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