bitcoin is the perfect technical solution for preventing spam in anonymous systems like bitchat (or tor etc). ironically, many bitcoiners these days don't seem to understand that satoshi's big achievement was to tokenize proof of work and literally put it in a coin. bitcoin can't protect itself with firewalls, IP filters, sign up pages, captchas, or even arbitrary transaction filters. the only thing that keeps bitcoin alive is the fact that it is costly to make a transaction and that cost has previously been tokenized into a sat using energy and proof of work. tokenizing proof of work as transaction fees is the innovation that protects bitcoin. that's why we can harness bitcoin to protect other systems in the first place. if you ever were confused about why I hate spam but still don't think that filters are a solution, I hope this clarifies it. my thinking has always been consistent on this. our enemies are much stronger than degens and we need to think much bigger than jpgs.