How many arguments are won by being the loudest, most irrational voice in the room? It's gotta be more than not.
I worry about how simple it is to create identities on Nostr. With zero energy requirement it means being that loudest voice is cheap. Paid relays help but maybe we could allow users to post a "proof" kind event that links an on chain transaction like signing a message with the private key for an address that owns some small threshold of Bitcoin.
Is ID verification not enough?
You mean NIP-05? The bots I see are all domain verified. It just doesn't impose the kind of cost that stops them. By requiring an on chain address with funds it means that the spammers at least have to lock up some amount of Bitcoin. It doesn't introduce a scaling cost per identity so maybe not that helpful. But perhaps the flow is instead having an address created by the Nostr identity being "verified" or "vetted" that must hold some arbitrary amount of Bitcoin.
