Ha! Now imagine living in there for years when Nansen tried to float to the North Pole.
Or the moment when Amundsen announced to his crew that they were not in fact about to sail to the North Pole but the South to race against Scott.
Does anyone know of some good high quality resources to learn cryptography? It would be nice if they had a focus on public-private key cryptography and programming.
Phones definitely have enough power. I don't think it would take many bits of computation before sending spam would be far too expensive to be worth it.
I think that's called friendship.
Love you too babe. 💋
Don’t worry, I’m brainstorming how to kill you and all your spam friends.
Trying to write a more long form article. Everything comes out pompous and convoluted. Writing is hard.
Did you read the article? I think the quote definitely applies in this context.
The verification signature only proves that the note was signed by the senders pubkey and that all of the information is correct and untampered with. PoW means expending CPU power (like I'm doing for this note) to create an signature. This would be possible but expensive for spammers to accomplish.
Men will literally talk with ChatGPT rather than go to therapy.
I didn’t realize until I got to the bottom of the article that it was not in fact by the Babylon Bee.
What exactly do you mean by that? A real user is usually sending less than a few dozen notes per day. Spammers are sending thousands. A spammer would therefore have to have far, far, more compute than a real user to spam. I'm not saying that a spammer couldn't do this but that PoW would raise the cost per note above what a spammer can hope to make from that note.
Correct. But if we can make PoW notes the standard and discriminate against non-PoW notes than spamming would become far more expensive because spammers would need to have PoW on their notes as well.
Yes, over the long term I think that's the best solution but not everyone has a Lightning Wallet. If we make notes with Bitcoin the standard than new users will be discriminated against whereas the same is not true for PoW. PoW is more inclusive for new users.
Yes, a phone is much less powerful than a spamming server but a phone is also sending magnitudes less notes than a spamming server.
nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s, could I try and bring https://github.com/damus-io/damus/pull/172/ up to date (probably as a new pull request) so that Damus sends messages with PoW automatically? I know you said that you think Lightning is a better filter, but every single person sending notes on Nostr can calculate PoW since they obviously already have a computer whereas the same is not true for Lightning. If Damus leads the charge on this and if we can get nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z on board we could make PoW default on notes which could almost completely solve the spam problem.
We need to make proof of work on posts the standard.
