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This concept has been proposed by Dwork and Naor in 1992 to fight email spam. [0] [0] Dwork, Cynthia, and Moni Naor. "Pricing via processing or combatting junk
by lexs 7y ago
This concept has been proposed by Dwork and Naor in 1992 to fight email spam. [0]
[0] Dwork, Cynthia, and Moni Naor. "Pricing via processing or combatting junk mail." Annual International Cryptology Conference. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1992.
- hn_throwaway_99 7y agoHashcash, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash , is specifically referenced in the bitcoin white paper as the proof-of-work strategy.
- aabbcc1241 7y agoAnd it's proven that proof-of-work doesn't work to stop spam https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/%E2%80%9C-Proof-of-Work-%E2%80%9D-Proves-Not-to-Work-version-0-.-2-Laurie-Clayton/7a58abc92dbe41c9e5b3c7b0a358ab9096880f25 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/%E2%80%9C-Proof-of-Wor...