Oddbean

Hey babes... How does the highlighted sentence here apply to Nostr's reply guy attacker? And how does it work if there were 10xs more reply guy efforts cojoining currently and coming forth? "The system is secure as long as honest nodes collectively control more CPU power than any cooperating group of attacker nodes." https://m.primal.net/LAqg.png #bitcoin #whitepaper #grownostr #asknostr

I don’t see how it’s relevant. Bitcoin uses CPU power to establish a global consensus or “canonical truth” of Bitcoin’s history. Nostr and spam aren’t really relevant, other than PoW could maybe be used to protect against spammers flooding a relay by having non-paying or non-invite or non-WoT users provide a small PoW in order to broadcast to the relay specifically. Otherwise the idea of competing processing power doesn’t apply unless we are all trying to find a single global state and agree on which is the “real” one.

Thank you for sharing. Obviously I am not very well versed on the technicalities. I do know Nostr is its own protocol. I am not well informed on the exact parallels or maybe intersections is the more accurate word with the Bitcoin protocol, and this peeked a curiosity.