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As a related information nugget, HashCash that popularised proof-of-work concept before Bitcoin, was originally designed a email spam prevention tool. Goes far
by miohtama 5y ago
As a related information nugget, HashCash that popularised proof-of-work concept before Bitcoin, was originally designed a email spam prevention tool. Goes far back as 1997.
http://www.hashcash.org/ http://www.hashcash.org/
- garbanz0 5y agoMaybe in some scifi future where energy is cheap and clean, we could use PoW for all kinds of things where PoS doesn't make sense.
- saurik 5y agoWhat you are doing with Proof of Work is demonstrating that you are spending a relative amount of money to accomplish something by demonstrating some energy usage. As energy gets cheaper you would have to do more of it to keep up.