I'm not sure a mechanism that relies on making BTC transactions is great because the UX would be very bad (and near unusable for normies).
I feel like there are probably some other heuristics you could apply to npubs (looking at follows is just one) to determine their credibility without requiring any user action. Stuff like "age of oldest event" or "count of times blocked by credible npubs" could do a lot.
stove5
npub102…a5v6d
2024-09-11 22:41:23
in reply to nevent1q…ltdv
Author Public Key
npub1023ttqpf2qkzy9lhr8k7lgdugpcvkmtzca7lnurz69guxhgty3lq5a5v6dSeen on
wss://relay.damus.ioPublished at
2024-09-11 22:41:23Event JSON
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