There's your problem. You need some form of cost attached to some identity assets, anything under the IANA umbrella, ips/domain names. This is in order to prevent sybil attacks. This is all well studied under he hashcash bitcoin era as PoW.
So yeah, you actually need to spend some money not in exchange of something here, but as the very thing you need, you need to distinguish yourself from those that spend 0$, not because they are cheap, but because they may do it 1000 times and ruin it your pooled reputation.
Unfortunately there's quite a market gap if you need bandwidth. I can't just pay HE 10 bucks a month, their service doesn't work that way. Hetzner would work, but their IP space is very often randomly blocked from lots of things.
There's your problem. You need some form of cost attached to some identity assets, anything under the IANA umbrella, ips/domain names. This is in order to prevent sybil attacks. This is all well studied under he hashcash bitcoin era as PoW.
So yeah, you actually need to spend some money not in exchange of something here, but as the very thing you need, you need to distinguish yourself from those that spend 0$, not because they are cheap, but because they may do it 1000 times and ruin it your pooled reputation.