Because it is the highest value you can reasonably do withou...

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2026-06-07T15:50:37Z

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Because it is the highest value you can reasonably do without making the experience of many users miserable.

And regardless, PoW only burns money, while being very cheap for spammers.

Paid relays fix this problem in a better way by not slowing your client to a crawl on every action you take, and actually funding the people dealing with spam.

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