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Anubis is only going to work as long as it doesn't gets famous, if that happens crawlers will start using GPUs / ASICs for the proof of work and it's game over.

• xena 2y ago
  Author of Anubis here. If that happens, I win.
  • eb0la 2y ago
    If that happens, count with me to use Anubis to factor large primes or whatever science needs as a background task.
    • enrico204 2y ago
      Actually, that is not a bad idea. @xena maybe Anubis v2 could make the client participate in some sort of SETI@HOME project, creating the biggest distributed cluster ever created :-D
      • programd 2y ago
        Oh come now, clearly Anubis should make the clients mine bitcoin as proof of work, with a split for the website and the author. Oh dear, somebody is going to implement this in about an hour, aren't they....
        • clvx 2y ago
          a service that allows you expose and host your data in a private manner getting a cut from whatever token your endpoints have generated.
        • grotorea 2y ago
          Just in case you didn't know, cryptominers in Javascript are already thing. Firefox even blocks them.
    • kotenok2000 2y ago
      Shouldn't you factor composite numbers? Factoring prime numbers is pointless.
• bashfulpup 2y ago
  The entire reason bots are so agressive is because they are cheap to run. If a GPU was required per scrape then >90% simply couldn't afford it at scale.