Adam Back's avatar
Adam Back 2 years ago
The “scraping” problem is not hard. Just charge for the data with #bitcoin /lightning at 2x the cost of service provision. Then the more they scrape the more profit you make. QED.

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I wonder, why Elon didn’t think of this as the right approach!
Adam that would be too simple. Has to be hard to be able to create a narrative around the easily solvable problem. #LightningNetwork fixes this
I genuinely don’t get why this is a hard solution to understand — introducing a cost to spamming reduces the spam.
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Bitcoin FIRE 2 years ago
Before you can charge for the data you have to lock them out.
Seems like Proof of work can solve real world problems! Imagine how email would look today if somebody would have had the idea to use PoW as a spam countermeasure! 😁
I would be very surprised that Twitter got into that problem just recently...
Or using proof of work with a very low difficulty for normal user behavior so that users do not feel it and increase difficulty exponentially with data consumption to limit those who abuse it. Hard to belief Elon Musk is not creative enough to figure out better solution than to rate limit normal users. Using proof of work instead of LN has the benefit that paying with electricity is native to any computer and users do not need spend the mental costs of authorizing a monetary payment.
Twitter isn’t that big a deal to most of the people on the planet. Years ago it was useful-now it’s infuriating to use.
why would you scrape when you can run a relay or buy a copy of their db?
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Newton 2 years ago
Wow, "days slaves". That's a great coining of a term, @ODELL. 🫂
most scrapers are computer science kids learning a projects so lerning is impeded if scraping is punished
wen Blockstream gonna match jacks bitkey device 2o3 multisig with recovery after 2 of 3 keys lost or stolen via a Contact sms message? pretty exciting the Green devs can outmatch that.
Got banned without justification from X, so elon can go and suck it Not giving away my data
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Benking 5 months ago
Nostr solves this naturally: data is open, but value is layered. Let them scrape — you just stack sats. 🧡📡