Thoughts on public key PoW as one measure for spam deterrence?
Discussion
Perhaps not so useful because it would exclude old users with standard keys.
However needing to revoke the old key I mined one, just in case :)
PoW for events seems for fleasible.
I see both as useful.
The way #[10] is doing it where it limits who can post to his relay makes sense to me, it's expensive for someone to keep spinning up new pow32 accounts everytime they're blocked for spamming so it means I can place a bit more trust on that relay not to have spammers on it.
People that don't have PoW keys can still use other relays and retrieve posts from that relay.
Don’t like that it potentially forces you to migrate to a new key if the difficulty increases. How about posting notes which attach a piece of PoW to the key you already have?
Don’t think I’ll increase the PoW requirement any time soon. It’s a good deterrent as-is. The reason the relay has pow32 in the name should serve as an indication of that.
Nevertheless, I’m playing with other ideas to allow standard pubkeys from accessing the relay with other means of PoW: Satoshi’s.
