hodlbod on Nostr: I have evidence that this isn't true, a few weeks ago someone scripted Coracle using ...
I have evidence that this isn't true, a few weeks ago someone scripted Coracle using puppeteer to create a bunch of fake accounts. I don't know why you would do that when you can just publish the events, but it demonstrates that the bar needs to be higher than just a few seconds of PoW, since running Chrome is much more expensive than computing PoW, and yet it was a viable vector for spam.
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2023-11-09 18:07:39Event JSON
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