> If nothing can really stop people anyway, then what's the point of all this? It works, the thing is that "working" in that case is to increase the cost of do

> If nothing can really stop people anyway, then what's the point of all this? It works, the thing is that "working" in that case is to increase the cost of doing this. Solving 1000 captchas costs $2 https://anti-captcha.com/ https://anti-captcha.com/. The difference here is that people that have no money can automate selenium on their own computer and defeat a PoW captcha. But for people that have to pay for either servers or a captcha solving service, there is no difference.