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   Jameson Lopp (lopp@lopp.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 14:48:46 JST Jameson Lopp

   I felt a great disturbance in the Fediverse, as if thousands of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced as they were rugged by NVK. ?

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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 14:48:36 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     • Ademan
     • Matt Corallo
     @ademan @lopp @matt I wonder if it makes sense to essentially have a javascript (or whatever) miner in the client, and make the posts so cheap that sending out something isn't free, but also not crazy expensive (for example, you could essentially only post once per 5 minutes 'for free'). That should prevent spam, make it still possible for btc-less people to post and also make the experience better for people who are willing to pay.
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     Ademan (ademan@thebag.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 14:48:37 JST Ademan

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     • Matt Corallo

     nostr is pretty interesting but I’ve grown increasingly convinced the spam situation will get really bad the moment it’s worth it to spammers, and they’ll resort to pay-to-post. Pay-to-post is actually pretty neat incentives wise, but will be completely socially unacceptable to everybody except bitcoiners.

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     Matt Corallo (matt@mastodon.bitcoin.ninja)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 14:48:38 JST Matt Corallo

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     @lopp as if bitcoiners needed to be *more* isolated from other groups…

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     Matt Corallo (matt@mastodon.bitcoin.ninja)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 14:50:47 JST Matt Corallo

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

     @lain Proof-of-Botnet :p. This is why PoW for email never took off, the economics actually don't work, botnets have more horsepower than normal folks, by far.

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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 14:52:13 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     • Matt Corallo
     @matt But if they already use the botnet to mine, why not just keep the mined btc? they are already valuable. If they use the btc to send spam, then they could just do it with money from other sources for the same effect.
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     taylor (nik@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2023 14:53:34 JST taylor

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
     • Ademan
     • Matt Corallo

     @lain@lain.com @ademan@thebag.social @lopp@lopp.social @matt@mastodon.bitcoin.ninja I think this is what steemit has been doing for a while?

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