I think nostr:npub1qqqqqqyz0la2jjl752yv8h7wgs3v098mh9nztd4nr6gynaef6uqqt0n47m was the first person to suggest this but i could be misremembering. I still think spammers would do the PoW as a way to exploit this wot expansion
For sure they will do it
But maybe it will slow them down just enough that muting and banning could make a difference?
And relay operators could more easily share ban lists?
Although maybe not, if a user mines an npub on a phone for 10 mins, a 4090 can probably do that same work in a few seconds :/
Could add a 'v' tag to a kind 0 event for npubs that specifically want to vouch for other npubs.
yes this was my exact line of thinking which made me abandon pow for most things
PoW makes most sense per-message to stop mass spamming, it makes less sense on pubkeys. But even per message is not a silver bullet because you can spin up many machines these days, i dunno
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.
Nobody pays a fortune to aws to spam the Nostr...
