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Cleaning up bad bots (and the climate)
- robbya 7y agoThis is similar to hashcash proof of work concepts that inspired Bitcoin. Use proof of work to make not traffic expensive, to create a financial disincentive for running the bot. I'm curious to see if Tor users get impacted by this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
- robbya 7y agoIs there something better than a CPU intensive task? They obviously are worried about the power consumption. I'm thinking a memory and time intensive task that is minimally CPU intensive would be better.
- pnako 7y agoGrandma's DSL router is about to get much warmer.