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mar 🇺🇲🇨🇦(₿) | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 That's not a good solution. The relay software is not yet at standards where you can easily delete spam quickly. The users coming into Nostr shouldn't have to spend time picking which relay is filtering spam or not. 

The solution here is requiring "follow requests" that cost 1 Satoshi or less. That will make it too expensive for bots to operate. 

I also don't want anyone interacting with my profile unless I accept their follow request because I've noticed bots liking my notes in order to get noticed. 

When billions are using Nostr it's going to be garbage just like X where you keep receiving lies and follows from those fake profiles with fake asian women profile pictures. 

Use capitalism and the power of Bitcoin micro-payments to stop spam.

Make them PAY
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śatosha | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 But why ?  

From a user perspective I have no issues with reply guy .. the poor bot is simply creating dumb replies .. any relay who care to save on their storage  shall figure out what they need to do ..  

If #nostr censored  bots , than it shall soon censor humans too ..
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LibertyGal | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 In general, I like it, but many newbies aren't set up with sats and a lightning wallet yet.  That makes them unable to pay to follow and makes them leave.  Until it is a little easier to setup a wallet and zap really easily, that would just drive people away.

The other problem is what happens when bitcoin sky rockets and a sat is real money?  We don't want to force something that causes problems later.  I suppose if it was optional, it might be OK.

That being said, I'd definitely be willing to pay a sat to follow someone.
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mar 🇺🇲🇨🇦(₿) | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You have a point about the first part. Even myself I started off with no lightning wallet. Nostr in fact helped me get comfortable with the lightning network. Wallets are getting easier. I did have a hard time finding a simple lightning wallet. The only one I did find that was extremely simple is wallet of satoshi. 

The other part about Bitcoin skyrocketing. Bitcoin is designed to always go up. If everyone just hodls their Bitcoin it will slow down adoption.
It's up to the person to decide but I have always spent some Bitcoin from day one. I want to support the network and achieve faster adoption by buying things in stores. I see the price of Bitcoin at the time I spent it and whatever it will be worth in the future does not stop me from enjoying my Bitcoin. It's important for people to spend their Bitcoin. If it bothers people that much they can buy back what they spent.
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LibertyGal | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Right now spending bitcoin and one satoshi is no big deal.  I zap and spend all of the time, but what happens way in the future when the value is 1,000 or 10,000 or more times greater.  It could get to the point that requiring a sat is real money and limits the number of people a person can follow.  I admit that is way in the future, but we don't want to design in something that destroys nostr in the future.
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mar 🇺🇲🇨🇦(₿) | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I see what you mean. Well the solution is quite simple. You just change the price of a follow request over time depending on the market.

At current rate 1 Satoshi is equal to 0 . 00063 which is almost nothing. Not even close to 1 penny.

We're still a long way from Satoshi moving up to the amount you said.

if it goes up 1,000  x price equals $0.63 Bitcoin would be equal to $630,000 for one Bitcoin 

if it goes up 10,000 x price equals  $6.30 Bitcoin would be equal to $630,000,000 for one Bitcoin