Oddbean

You can filter new nostriches by PoW (NIP 13, i think). Higher difficulties for newbies, lower difficulties, or even 0, for those in the WoT. This way, new nostriches only need to spend a little bit of CPU until they get into the WoT.

So, i was tinkering with the WoT relay and NIP-13. So events are accepted if they either are from someone in the WoT, or they have a NIP-13 tag with PoW difficulty above a configurable amount. Thsi way we can have both newbies and people in the WoT. (A shame not all clients implement NIP-13, i think this combination of PoW and WoT is a great way to avoid spammers) I think i made it work. so i'll be testing it tonight, and if nothing goes wrong i can submit a PR by tomorrow (unless you don't want to mix NIP-13 with you WoT, then i can keep it in a separate codebase)

it only checks for Pow if: 1- The event is not from the WoT 2- The NIP-13 tag "nonce" is present. People in the WoT are not checked for PoW. But it still configurable, so you can just turn it off.