Thomas voegtlin talks about nostr spam. It's very censorship resistance means spam can't be stopped by moderators.

One way to stop spam is require proof of work before your client accepts a message. A large difficult hash.

But big hashing machines are more available to spammers than people.

Can't use likes or zaps cuz they can be faked with sybil attacks.

Instead: notaries and proveably burned satoshis.

Your public messages are classified as ham rather than spam if you burn enough money.

Nostr event types to prove it are suggested. Including burning to upvote others messages

Don't think I like deliberately burning the money, and seems to me a web of trust might work without doing that? Pay to post also peanizes there poor.

But it isn't really burned here, it's shaed out to miners to continue a subsidy when the block rewards run out. So paying miners and these notaries rather than really burning. Okay. Maybe better, but still makes messages mostly for the rich?

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