Guy on Nostr: Why would it fail to slow spam, for example on nostr, if relays required some POW for ...
Why would it fail to slow spam, for example on nostr, if relays required some POW for messages? Would the threshold need to be so low as to allow mobile devices to successfully post and then spammers would pretend to be mobile devices (or not even need to pretend because of the low threshold)?
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