moldboy on Nostr: Bots 🤖 can and will have wallets and access to lightning. Paid votes just mean the ...
Bots 🤖 can and will have wallets and access to lightning. Paid votes just mean the person with the most money can shift the poll to their favor. It doesn’t prevent bot participation or vote rigging. You need an extremely large client base to make sure paid polls are not manipulated. X has the user base, each paying $11 a month. The masses will always outspend the manipulator. Nostr unfortunately doesn’t have the user base and likely never will to prevent one person from outspending poll participants. It’s essentially Proof-of-Stake and the person with 51% owns the votes and the poll. X has too many users for a single bad actor to 51% a popular poll. This is a math problem not bot problem. It’s also a lack of active users problem. The least popular a poll the more susceptible it is to attack but at this same time the inverse is true, it’s less likely to be targeted.
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2023-09-03 06:13:40Event JSON
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