Nostr Web Client

I just had the thought that the gating factor is the network connection to drop off the spam on the server. It doesn't matter if keypair generation is super fast without PoW, any slowdown by requiring PoW that doesn't exceed the gating factor of the network connection makes no difference, until it exceeds that. So "one million times slower" is of no practical effect.

ynniv 4mo ago

It's ... hard. But consider my idea of people randomly PoWing the people they follow. Even mobile-only people would occasionally get some server PoW. Over time pubkeys would accumulate a lot of it, and new accounts would have just a little. It's not perfect, but at least no one would wonder which nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m is the real one, and maybe some new variant will work even better

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ynniv 4mo ago

It's similar to follower count, except you can easily make new followers. Also similar to zaps, but you can game zaps.

Can't game PoW, but it favors server hardware so you need to use it a certain way