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I never understood Saylor's 'orange check' idea. Pay some money to be "verified", but after that what's the cost to spam? It might work for Twitter because you can get banned and lose upside of verification, but how would that work on Nostr?

PoW at least provides a cost to every post. I won't mind 5 seconds of my phone's battery life being spent to send the occasional note, but spamming tens of millions of times occurs a cost that quickly exceeds any earnings from the grift.

IMO, PoW is the simplest answer.
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Tony Carrera 2y ago

I think the idea is you pay (or deposit) the equivalent of $20 to verify and if the account spams, the payment/deposit is forfeited causing an actual financial loss. The spammer would have to spin up a new account and deposit and risk losing the deposit again making it financially difficult to continue to do so.

I do think POW is another great idea but might be less financially impactful. I also like that POW doesn’t rely on 3rd party deciding if you are/aren’t a scammer.

At least there are some options to consider.

FYI here are two tweets that may better explain the orange check:

https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1478124645563916288?s=46&t=c0PpAMz1vsG-WbE67v9haw

https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1526281351628050432?s=46&t=c0PpAMz1vsG-WbE67v9haw

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