Oddbean new post about login | logout All true, but I think you overestimate how many Nostr-spammers have that skillset. People with that skillset have much more profitable things to do with their time. Threat modelling needs to be step 1.
While I do agree with you about people having much more profitable things to do with their skill set… It only takes one obsessed, very powerful person and one black hat on their payroll (which they have, in abundance)
the replyguy kinda ends the discussion as far as i'm concerned causing trouble is cheap on nostr right now, that is a threat that needs to be considered seriously since there is not so much risk of a profitable scam attack at this point we have to raise the price above thet most determined seeker of lulz
Thats why I think there should be a minimum of PoW on every single note, some energy required to post whatever, doesn’t matter if you are a legitimate user or spammer.
i wish i didn't hear this so often from people if it's worth money, it won't be within reach of regular users if it's not worth money, nobody is going to spam
Is reply guy is making money? The cost is so cheap today that even the amount of money lost is peanuts to the average spammer. I’m advocating for raising the cost floor, not keep it free/cheap as it is today. Not advocating for eliminating spam forever. I think all here can spend a couple days or weeks (slowly) mining a profile event with some PoW. Whether spammers can do it faster does not matter, they will have to pay the cost for every pubkey which raises their cost floor. They will need to spend in expensive equipment and spend energy to do it every single time they need a new pubkey. What we have today is zero or near-zero cost. Also if you don’t want to hear other people’s opinions try getting off the internet ffs and cut the 💩