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There is no way to prevent people from optimizing PoW for spamming. Generating 1MM units of PoW will always be more efficient than 1MM people generating each 1
by noxer 5y ago
There is no way to prevent people from optimizing PoW for spamming.
Generating 1MM units of PoW will always be more efficient than 1MM people generating each 1 unit of PoW.
Optimization always works better at scale. Therefore an attacker always has the upper hand.
PoW is absolutely useless as a CAPTCHA and doesn't even do what C.A.P.T.C.H.A. says.
- inter_netuser 5y agoexactly. just ask for sats via LN.
- noxer 5y agoWe can already stream money with https://webmonetization.org/docs/explainer/ https://webmonetization.org/docs/explainer/ Doesn't matter if the underling "wallet" is a blockchain or some other ledger like system.
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- inter_netuser 5y agoso a 402, but in reverse? the user-agent gets paid, instead of server?
- noxer 5y agoIts a HTML meta tag that contains an address where to send/stream money similar to an email address but for value not text. The websites backed ofc revives data about that payment in real time and can change the content of the website based on that.
- sneak 5y agoAnd then you're either a licensed/regulated business, or a money launderer.