does that mean someone can republish notes from everybody into the relay now
and all these people will get on the trial without even knowing they are?
The WesternBTC is now a trial relay (https://westernbtc.com).
How it works:
When a pubkey is first seen, it's given a trial whitelisting of n days (30 in my case). After the trial period has elapsed, any notes created by the pubkey are deleted. If the pubkey is officially whitelisted at any point before the expiration of the trial period, the pubkey is promoted to full whitelisting and removed from the trial whitelisting.
What this enables:
- sign ups without users having to pay first (terrible UX previously)
- gift wraps now work (NIP-17)
- clean up relay space automatically
Discussion
This is a good point. I’ll have to think about this.