Increment proof of work, every time you use the app, you do some work for yourself and for the people you are talking to This PoW is a bearer token that can, somewhat, act as a proxy for both being an Agent and having friends (that tried to find PoW for you). Finally, you can use Bitcoin to prove that you had that key for long time, which spammers can't do. All of these are tricks I am using in #mns to allow random short name, but they can work with Npubs as well I think. View quoted note →

Found a way to encode 5 bytes in pronounceable two 20 bits words, for example `mipdop_rajbov`.mns.alt... this is most likely the limit, any more bytes will require more words. With three words we can have a million times larger namespace, but is it worth it? View quoted note →

Americans call China a communist "planned economy", but I see them praying and celebrating rate cuts like their business depends on it .. sounds planned to me, maybe poorly planned but it is top down alright.