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Proof of Work doesn't solve spam because spammers have more PoW than regular users. In Bitcoin it is effective because its 1 against the cumulative PoW of all others. Also, its effective against redoing history, not spam - see ordinals.

There is no cumulative PoW in nostr, so easy win for the spammers.

marcan0 2y ago

AFAIK, the initial idea behind proof of work was to incur a cost to sending any message over a network as a spam deterrent.

I post a few times a day, so wouldn't mind a total of 30 seconds of my phone's battery life being used for hashing notes.

But if a shitcoin grifter needs to spam a million posts to grift someone, the cost they would incur could easily exceed the cost of the grift.

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