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Timechain

If DM spam becomes a problem, How about a client feature where someone can charge a fee to get a DM

I think it can be done at the client level in a way that doesn't matter what client the other person is using.

-Person sends a message to me

-My client autoreplies with an invoice at an amount I set

-that person pays it

-my client then allows me to see message.

Since on his end the payment is entirely through DM, it should work no matter what client he uses.

I have no skills to do this, but what do you guys think?

MTozoni ⚡😺 2y ago

You get DMs? 😭

I think a way to fix that problem is also with proof of work. Advertise that you only accept DMs with a difficulty X, and any message below that difficulty will just get rejected. Those who need to contact you will be willing to spend a few seconds burning CPU to get to you.

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Timechain 2y ago

I don't know how you would implement that without the receiver and sender both having a client with this capability.

The one I was thinking of only requires the receiver to have a client with this feature, and could work with the sender using any client as the invoice occurs via DMs

MTozoni ⚡😺 2y ago

Proof of Word is apparently something being discussed as a standard to implement on Nostr. Since every message is hashed anyway, it wouldn't be much to add PoW to that hash too. It would cut down on spam in general.

I'm hoping it will be implemented in the protocol and all clients soon 🤞

Timechain 2y ago

Ohhh so it's going in the protocol? Wow. What's happening to my dumb protocol?! Honestly I think adding a POW feature instead of adding a sats feature... but hey, I'm a bitcoiner.