Nice note 🤝
Are you using the term PoW metaphorically or is there something I don’t understand about Nostr?
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wondering the same thing
Not a metaphor. PoW = PoW, and sats are PoW too. ⚡
sats are the right kind of PoW for most use cases in nostr
spam protection directly via PoW doesn't work when an ASIC and a mobile compete in the same playing field.
sats level the PoW playing field
Sats are difficulty-adjusted PoW, which is way better than straight up PoW.
"difficulty-adjusted PoW"
that's such a much better and succinct way of putting it! 😅
What's the current market price in sats for posting 1 note.
Depends on the quality of the note
Similarly, clients can allow the user to disallow zaps below any threshold thought to be gameable trivially.
The best trust protection is manual "vetting".
Let Sally endorse Bob as an authentic human. But only once Sally has first been endorsed trustworthy herself. Creating an opt-in circle of trust.
If a bot slips through the cracks, Sally can remove her endorsement of Bob. Which removes ALL endorsements that Bob made too, all the way down the line. Blasting bot-nets out of the sky.
Only endorse people you trust, and people you trust to make trustworthy endorsements as well.
I really like the idea of this implementation. Might it slow down adoption of Nostr though? Maybe that’s the point 🤔
according to brave search summariser:
Nostr protocol defines a way to generate proof of work (PoW) on the client side, allowing relay and client to filter events based on difficulty. Nostril is a command-line tool that can produce a message with proof of work.(1) Proof of work can be generated for GitHub Gist ID, Twitter ID, Mastodon post ID, and Twitter ID. A Proof of Work Service Provider for Nostr is being developed, allowing client apps to request remote PoW generation for event_ids before signing and publishing. (2) The protocol also provides a mechanism for user-driven search, and a NIP defines a way to generate and interpret PoW for Nostr notes. (0)
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