Urbit avoided the problem of spam profiles by restricting Urbit IDs to 32 bit numbers and attaching a cost to each one...on the Ethereum blockchain.

I'll choose ReplyGuys over that solution any day.

Am I missing your point?

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Nostr devs have ReplyGuy

Bitcoin devs have the Federal Prosecutor of the United States

Samourai wallet is not an adversary to Bitcoin

Probably will, yes. If the problem must surface sooner or later, why not fix it sooner?

Makes sense because few people actually listens to kats in person. In katson?

The predatory practices of the evil corps in the social media landscape

Nostr reply spam and DDoS are very different. I think of the former as a gray hat disclosing a security vulnerability in the open, forcing devs to patch. The latter helps no one since it only eats resources. DDoS can't be outsmarted, reply spam can and should be.

I wonder if there'll be a huge asymmetry between defense lawyers' AI tools and the tools that state level and big corp prosecution can utilise in their attacks against open source devs in the future.

"According to Rodriguez’ lawyer, the volume of discovery material was equivalent to “75% of the Library of Congress,” and that if printed out, the stacked paper would reach from Earth to the Moon and back – 22 times."

https://www.therage.co/samourai-wallet-rodriguez-deemed-flight-risk-denied-freedom-of-movement/

I'll never figure out how some people can be addicted to email.

Might be a good idea to have a bank you're willing to burn if they get nosey or start restricting your Bisq transfers. But once you have a truly permissionless private setup I can guarantee you'll never want to go back 🍻 Now is a good time to start using Bisq too since they have lightning now

Is this a throwaway identity or should I follow?

5th of November came early with the V

If your Nostr web client doesn't have Web of Trust based feeds to fight spam, start here:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/nostr-social-graph

"OG's razor"

WoT based feeds are superior to feeds filtered by mute lists. ReplyGuy and ReplyGirl use tons of keys and you'd have to mute every single one. Feeds and threads filtered by a sensible follow distance threshold work much better once you have an established social graph.

Really not doing yourself any favours here Alex. Think of this as someone disclosing a critical security vuln in 99% of the apps in an app store. Some apps won't patch until forced to do so. Pure white hat reporting just wouldn't work. And like others have said, this spam could be much worse if truly malicious.

Nostr needs red teamers to flourish. One type of spam makes devs lazy with filtering ✌️ WoT based filtering is the robust answer