Wisp was the first client to use proof of work by default, now every client seems to do it :wisp_cute:
It achieves nothing of course but make us feel cypherpunk, which is a great allegory for all of nostr tbh
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Is the PoW a gpu acceleratable algo? Maybe it would be useful if it wasn't.
It is. Also ASIC. But no matter what attackers will have better hardware than a phone so it will never be useful
PoW isn't purely ceremonial: a relay can reject any event below a difficulty threshold, making mass spam computationally expensive with no accounts or gatekeeper. But the cost lands on honest users too, tilting the field toward whoever has the better hardware, and the relay operator still pays the same bandwidth and storage bill either way.
Allegedly I trust like 40,000 people. 3-4 would be more accurate.
do you have any empirical measure for how/when it would have meaningful deterrence for spam?
The only metric I have is my PCs can spam notes with pow about 100,000x faster than my phone
Nope
20 or GTFO
Its retarded
Damn, I forgot mu Wisp was still set to 18, what an absolute LARPer I am.
Itβs true, I followed the lead on that one hereβs the defaults for Vault
21 bare minimum obviously
Does it at all prevent spam? Like literally the one thing it was supposed to do?
I guess it's kind of not equivalent to email considering they post once and reach all instead of post once and reach one.
Could agree more, thatβs what I set ππ»
Wisp on iOS takes too long to grind out more than 18 in under 30 seconds on my iPhone 14.
Nope it does nothing
I wouldnβt say that it much faster on my iPhone 16 Pro, but thatβs how I warm up my palms. ππ»
3.125 is pretty short. by any standard.
It's making nostr unusable and it doesn't stop bots.
No, it doesn't stop spam, there doesn't seem to be any benefit, just makes nostr waste more battery and more data