i wish i didn't hear this so often from people
if it's worth money, it won't be within reach of regular users
if it's not worth money, nobody is going to spam
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Is reply guy is making money? The cost is so cheap today that even the amount of money lost is peanuts to the average spammer.
I’m advocating for raising the cost floor, not keep it free/cheap as it is today. Not advocating for eliminating spam forever.
I think all here can spend a couple days or weeks (slowly) mining a profile event with some PoW. Whether spammers can do it faster does not matter, they will have to pay the cost for every pubkey which raises their cost floor. They will need to spend in expensive equipment and spend energy to do it every single time they need a new pubkey.
What we have today is zero or near-zero cost.
Also if you don’t want to hear other people’s opinions try getting off the internet ffs and cut the 💩
artificial measures won't make any difference, and i'm sure as hell not wasting CPU time hashing stupid json notes for no effect
i'd rather just directly spend on resources that actually cost money anyway, that would be abused by spammers and scammers if they were free
in the end, you have to pay for PoW, same as with bitcoin, the whole point is that it's profitable, or nobody will do it
we have bitcoin, it uses PoW, that means nothing about any other application of it, and it solves the money problem so we can just cut to the chase and set a price floor for scammers right there in the app
if nobody cares, it's not needing protection, if it's interesting, then you need to charge for it
doesn't mean you can't give other ways to get new users on without first onboarding them to LN wallets, that can come later, referrals, attestations, all kinds of things could fix the onboarding problem
none of this has anything involved that needs PoW
please, just stahp with the PoW
you sound like shitcoiners 5 years ago before nicehash destroyed the PoW mining market and caused it to consolidate and eventually most of them are now gone, except for a very small few like chia, monero, litecoin, there just is no way to have more than a few of them in the world and only one will be really valuable
and if it already exists, you are just setting yourself up to watch it fall down just like all the shitcoins did
i can't believe you have this fascination about PoW and yet you have clearly done zero research on its history and the very few use cases it has actually long term worked for
enjoy your spam