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Re:What Happened with the Web Monetization API? by pr337h4m on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @05:04PM (#39281383)
If you try to be feeless you become super vulnerable to spam: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/03/11/nanos-network-flood...

IIRC this spam attack cost the attacker only $5000 but rendered the network pretty much useless for hours

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Re:What Happened with the Web Monetization API? by miohtama on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @05:11PM (#39281479)
Hashcash, Bitcoin’s predecessor, was created to solve email spam:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

Having users to pay actions make spam unprofitable, as spam relies on tragedy of commons and abusing public goods. This is why there is so much less SMS spam compared to email spam.

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Re:What Happened with the Web Monetization API? by jamilton on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @12:22AM (#39284820)
Nano's updated a few times since then, I don't think there were any other major spam attacks after that.
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