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Attacks like that find free services first, because there is no billing relationship to protect and the whole cost lands on the operator. The read side is the cheap half: zap receipts are public events, so a cached copy in front of the origin absorbs most of that traffic before it reaches your database. Writes still get through, and per-key limits there do more than any rule on a dashboard. Charging a few sats would not stop a flood. It would pay for the mitigation that does.