People can always recreate events in the past if relays accept it. So, one could replace all of their events with bigger PoW ones.
I don't think this helps with spam at all though. If there is one thing we know about spammers is that they have access to significant computing power.
Vitor Pamplona
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2023-05-17 21:50:46
in reply to nevent1q…t39y
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