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In the article, the main motivation for requiring a domain name, is to raise the barrier to entry above “free” to mitigate spamming/abuse.
by catlifeonmars 2y ago
In the article, the main motivation for requiring a domain name, is to raise the barrier to entry above “free” to mitigate spamming/abuse.
- uzyn 2y agoA 1-time fixed cost will not deter spam, it only encourages more spamming to lower the averaged per-spam cost. Email spamming requires some system set up, that's a 1-time fixed cost above $10/year but it does not stop spam.
- catlifeonmars 2y agoIt’s one time fixed cost per stream of messages, with some out of band mechanism to throttle posting per-stream. I’m not sure I agree with the original articles choice of throttling mechanism (binding to the universal Bitcoin clock), but the concept still makes sense: in order to scale up production of spam, you still need to buy additional domains, otherwise you’re limited to one post every n-minutes, and domain registration slow enough for block lists to keep up.