The “scraping” problem is not hard. Just charge for the data with #bitcoin /lightning at 2x the cost of service provision. Then the more they scrape the more profit you make. QED.
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True, but to me this rate limiting looks much more like creating a problem that didn’t exist before, and at the same time pushing for twitter blue.
Ironically, they're pushing less people to Twitter Blue and more people to nostr.
I wonder, why Elon didn’t think of this as the right approach!
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For example, using Lightning API Keys (L402)?
"L402 are a cornerstone to building metered APIs for the machine-to-machine economy, without logins, e-mail addresses or passwords."
https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/l402/l402
Adam that would be too simple. Has to be hard to be able to create a narrative around the easily solvable problem.
#LightningNetwork fixes this
I genuinely don’t get why this is a hard solution to understand — introducing a cost to spamming reduces the spam.
Bitcoin fixes everything... Again and again.
Before you can charge for the data you have to lock them out.
Seems like Proof of work can solve real world problems!
Imagine how email would look today if somebody would have had the idea to use PoW as a spam countermeasure!
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I would be very surprised that Twitter got into that problem just recently...
Or using proof of work with a very low difficulty for normal user behavior so that users do not feel it and increase difficulty exponentially with data consumption to limit those who abuse it. Hard to belief Elon Musk is not creative enough to figure out better solution than to rate limit normal users. Using proof of work instead of LN has the benefit that paying with electricity is native to any computer and users do not need spend the mental costs of authorizing a monetary payment.
yes but that is not the point of elon's recent moves - the plan is to mass verify users so they are better data slaves
Twitter isn’t that big a deal to most of the people on the planet. Years ago it was useful-now it’s infuriating to use.
turned the first amendment into a data gathering grift.
Wow, "days slaves". That's a great coining of a term, nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx. 🫂
Got banned without justification from X, so elon can go and suck it
Not giving away my data
HTTP 402 (Payment required) using Lightning + ecash
X-Cashu
X-Cashu is a work-in-progress project that aims to create a 402 Payment Required scheme to monetize REST API access by using ecash in HTTP headers.
https://github.com/cashubtc/xcashu
Proxnut
This proxy forwards requests only if they have a valid cashu token attached to the X-Cashu header.
why would you scrape when you can run a relay or buy a copy of their db?
Hello Adam, I am in Nostr cuz of you
Welcome here, nostr:npub182l8vp0n37p64jt67aff5688afkk9l6yglqxnr5kl0t7kdd807zsslyd3z! Please create a lightning address.
That's how to deal with it! Zaps saving the day
How are you baby
most scrapers are computer science kids learning a projects so lerning is impeded if scraping is punished
wen Blockstream gonna match jacks bitkey device 2o3 multisig with recovery after 2 of 3 keys lost or stolen via a Contact sms message?
pretty exciting the Green devs can outmatch that.
Why not post more here…?
Not every scrap has the same value though. Some negative, some zero, some positive.
1 post a year.
137k followers.
Whens the the ticker gonna change Adam? lol
Nostr solves this naturally: data is open, but value is layered. Let them scrape — you just stack sats. 🧡📡