I think paying a small amount for storage which is cheap may be part of a workable approach. Pay $2/month for 2GB relay storage. Pay a few relays for distribution and redundancy.
But added friction to posting is still not ideal. The trade off is anyone can post including machines and machine cost to post is near zero. Twitter and others still failed and they literally had KYC.
99.999% of people are not paying no matter how you imagine it
That's because they're not people. They're bots.
Always assume that an actor on the internet is a bot, unless they've taken action to prove they are human.
Action like, spending bitcoin to verify their account. There isn't an organization on the planet that can bot-spam for long if each bot costs 5000 sats to exist.
Also, I have no respect for people on nostr that won't zap.
💯 And the bot funders can’t print Bitcoin.
The more they try to control nostr, the higher bitcoin goes, the more difficult it becomes.
How about taking 1sat from zaps and distribute it to servers client is using?
Or just send 1sat/note or reply to relay?
It could be an option. It doesn’t work for lower quantity or targeted spam.
0.000231 Satoshi/USD *1850000 spam events from this recent attack = $427.35.
Question kind of becomes the marketplace one - can someone make more than $427USD with 1.85MM events paid 1 sat/event for?
However, if they pay 1 sat/event and it still can then be filtered as spam, that would really lower the effectiveness. But again, you would need to pay 1 sat per relay you publish to.
Gotta disagree. Friction to posting, if handled right, is EXACTLY ideal. If all public relays only allowed writes that were either from someone with NIP5 verification, or included a zap, then the spam dies from a lack of funding.
