This reminds me of Zed Shaw's Utu protocol from back in the day: https://weblog.masukomi.org/2018/03/25/zed-shaws-utu-saving-the-internet-with-hate/ https://we

This reminds me of Zed Shaw's Utu protocol from back in the day: https://weblog.masukomi.org/2018/03/25/zed-shaws-utu-saving-the-internet-with-hate/ https://weblog.masukomi.org/2018/03/25/zed-shaws-utu-saving-... I am not a crypto guy, but my understanding is that users can downvote each other, and the more downvotes a user gets the harder the proof-of-work problem they had to solve before they post. If you received enough hate, your CPU would spike for a couple of minutes each time you tried to post, thus disincentivizing bad behavior. I see on github the project is officially dead now: https://github.com/zedshaw/utu https://github.com/zedshaw/utu