Satoshi and others spoke about this on the mailing list but one of the original ideas or use cases behind Adam Back's hashcash and other Proof-of-work methods i

Satoshi and others spoke about this on the mailing list but one of the original ideas or use cases behind Adam Back's hashcash and other Proof-of-work methods involved or was centered around research to stop the proliferation of automated spam. > Can you explain how blockchain is saving us from AI shitting over the internet? One of the original use cases was the defense against Sybil Attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack To make it prohibitively expensive to attack the network. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud#Ballot_stuffing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud#Ballot_stuffin... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack#Identity_validation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack#Identity_validati...