when spam happens, the mod team just starts kicking them off, and if the payment is too low it can be dynamically adjusted until the spammer cannot afford it. ie, if the payment for a user was 7000 sats, then a spammer would have to pay 7000 sats per message. users that already signed up are unaffected. this is a game they cannot win, but only if we can find ways to expose it to the users because otherwise they won't sign up at all, get spammed, and then leave nostr.

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The serious scammers might even welcome that amount, it'd keep their low-level competition away and they'd figure out some way to game it. But even so, that'd be crippling for growth. It's just very hard to get Sats for most people. I suspect many Nostr regulars have had Sats for so long they've lost touch with how hard it is for a regular person in many countries to get 7,000 sats. Or even 1 sat. And if the price for keeping out spammers via this means is zero growth then it's not worth it.