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> I'm surprised something like this wasn't done sooner, It should have been, but was delayed by people shrieking about oceans boiling.
by KirillPanov 3y ago
> I'm surprised something like this wasn't done sooner,
It should have been, but was delayed by people shrieking about oceans boiling.
- evgen 3y agoFWIW, we talked about using things like hashcash to prevent abuse and similar attacks for anonymous remailers back in the early 90s. Talking about it is one thing, actually making the commitment to do it is something else entirely. Given interest in cryptocurrencies there has also been a lot more effort devoted to considering the cost/feature tradeoffs of various PoW mechanisms (and a broader familiarity with the general concept among the target population), so it is possible that we are seeing a happy side-effect of years of cryptocurrency hype.
- flangola7 3y ago>shrieking No one is doing any such thing.
- alphaddx 3y agoSomeone is shrieking about it in the thread above. >salawat >PoW is nothing but wasted, needless computation. Computing is not free. Every watt spent doing anything PoW is just that much more intensification of our current climate crisis. >As someone with temps of 109 with heat index of 120 coming in the next few days, with all due respect, fuck anyone who proposes PoW is a good idea for anything. >It isn't interesting. It's the most egregious example of conspicuous consumption on the planet.
- AlexeyBelov 3y agoI don't see any shrieking. Are you shrieking as well?
- flangola7 3y agoWhere is the shrieking? Nothing in the text you quoted shows this. Are you a bot?