Ecash sat stamp

If you want something from the universe > PoW If you want something from an entity > sats

Yep you need some absolute cost to take it away that is the same for everybody.

How about if the person trying to access the mint doesn't have Sats?

Sats are the PoW.

Why does a mint need a rate limit? To be more precise, I don't understand the context of a legitimate user 'competing' with a DDoS server. I can understand that there might be attackers who want to attack the mint for reasons other than financial gain, but why does the issue of competition with regular users come up? It's not like this is a system where you get a reward for completing a challenge.

Sats are PoW. Difficulty-adjusted PoW.

I came to the same conclusion in the past, e.g. in this conversation:

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And agree with the reasoning... without the system having a massive asymmetry in favor of the defender, it's not viable, and *even then*, it may not work (hence I am dubious about Tor's recent efforts). Funnily enough even back then I saw a good solution being .. ecash :) (privacypass etc) but yeah LN sats could also be viable depending on the system.

we ended up solving it with fees for ecash tx's 😉

Trying to add a new mint to an app with a built in NIP-60 (still an API call) Trying to call the API to request a Lightning invoice to initially top up