PoW can only prevent financially-motivated spam, where the click-through rate isn't amazing. 

It merely slows and limits trolls and ideologically-motivated spam. 

 Slowing down spam is a reasonable goal. Completely eliminating it is likely not realistic. 

 I still think ip rate limiting and banning is way less intrusive and works well. I think i can eliminate 99% of it with enough elbow grease, but will likely require active monitoring for new attacks. I can see why twitter had a bot team -_- 

 IP rate limiting curves spam on a single relay but spammers are sending events to many relays so clients still get spam, and unfortunately relays don’t gossip about this stuff for better or worse. 

 We don’t need to gossip it necessarily, we just need to be working in the same spam ip blocking code. going to write something up for noteguard and hope other public relays run it and improve it 

 深夜1時以降でコンビニ閉まって困るのは流通のトラックくらいじゃないのって思ってる 😀 いても店内清掃するくらいでしょ的な 19時か20時で閉まる道の駅内コンビニは周辺になにもないので、滑り込みアウトしたことある私くらいしか困らない 

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 アイコン的にはここまで拡大したいけどかんざしくらいしか残らない 👍 https://image.nostr.build/efc8034df5eeca7960914ef62e7c7a5c941930527bc9fd67e1f2068398a61cc0.png 

 "Cringe" is 🌈 fine, blabbering about politics is passe. 

 what do you think about Pow endorsements?

https://pippellia.com/pippellia/Social+Graph/Navigating+the+social+graph#PoW+endorsement

tldr;

- Alice pays 10$ to a miner
- Miner mines a note that reference Alice's npub
- Alice gets her checkmark so she can defend her audience from impersonators 

 I would have to trust the miner and I shouldn’t need to. 

 worst case is u lose 10$.

It's like a restaurant.  

 Nobody pays a fortune to aws to spam the Nostr... 

 https://www.areanews.com.au/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/Z4Q6sUEHdcmw72MBPYgZkU/69ad5867-c8cc-4924-b8f1-c0e5dbacb88b.jpg/r0_72_1000_597_w1200_h630_fmax.jpg Ask 🔥 🔥 Fuzzy: What 🔥 is 🌈 the true 👍 colour of 🌈 👍 the universe? | The 😀 Area News https://www.areanews.com.au/story/8767011/ask-fuzzy-what-is-the-true-colour-of-the-universe/?cs=9371 💯 

 喉いてぇ 👍 

 Trump held 😂 😂 his 🌈 🤔 first campaign event 🤔 since 💯 😂 😂 the 😀 apparent 🌈 🎉 assassination 🌈 😀 attempt https://www.npr.org/2024/09/17/nx-s1-5116600/trump-town-hall-flint-michigan?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon 🎉 👍 

 The 😀 🤔 moon 😀 is very 🎉 😀 😂 🌈 very bright right 🔥 now 🌈 👍 🌈 and 🤔 🎉 😀 there’s 💯 🔥 a partial 😀 🌈 🌈 lunar 💯 eclipse starting. 

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 🤡🤡🤡 C’mon, if 🌈 politicians could be tokenized, the House 🌈 GOP geniuses would 😂 be the 😂 most entertaining shitcoins. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republicans-vote-funding-bill-shutdown-trump-save-act-rcna171635