nopara73 on Nostr: What you want is to impose cost on actions/operations and programmable money (ideally ...

What you want is to impose cost on actions/operations and programmable money (ideally also fast, cheap and anonymous) seems to me a better solution than PoW, even though PoW seems to be the best solution to build such programmable money.

Also to drive home your point on the murkiness of the concept of personal identity:
https://youtu.be/kVAHXiKjgRo
https://youtu.be/UjZWshQxsGc
https://youtu.be/-RDc3E5XZY0
https://youtu.be/VEQ994vqay8
https://youtu.be/sIIXc5KgzkQ
https://youtu.be/wbQ6PNUlQSM