fiatjaf on Nostr: Since making relevant PoW for each note is annoying and somewhat broken, another ...
Since making relevant PoW for each note is annoying and somewhat broken, another option that came to my mind was a relay that required PoW on pubkeys instead of on event ids.
But since your pubkey is something you create only once this is a super inflexible scheme and annoying. But then I realized we could define a new event, say kind:13000, which would be just a replaceable PoW for a pubkey.
Then we could have a relay that has difficulty adjustment for the amount of PoW they require in such event, and pubkeys can upgrade their PoW as the time passes. Or relays can require a certain amount of PoW, but from a recent event, to force users to redo their PoW every now and then, and other variants of this.
This all in the context of "beginner" relays. Once you're a established Nostr accounts with followers and activity then other relays will start to open up for you more naturally without requiring PoW.
But since your pubkey is something you create only once this is a super inflexible scheme and annoying. But then I realized we could define a new event, say kind:13000, which would be just a replaceable PoW for a pubkey.
Then we could have a relay that has difficulty adjustment for the amount of PoW they require in such event, and pubkeys can upgrade their PoW as the time passes. Or relays can require a certain amount of PoW, but from a recent event, to force users to redo their PoW every now and then, and other variants of this.
This all in the context of "beginner" relays. Once you're a established Nostr accounts with followers and activity then other relays will start to open up for you more naturally without requiring PoW.