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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43556521 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43556521 wherein a hosting company sees AI bot scans that appear to be c
by notherhack 2y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43556521 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43556521
wherein a hosting company sees AI bot scans that appear to be coming from millions of unique addresses, thousands of ASNs, many residential and often with a single connection from an IP. The AI bots are proxying through either hacked IoT devices or apps that pay people pennies to let their phone be used as a proxy.
Likely your proof of work will be distributed to the proxies. It'll just make millions of webcams and phones run a little hotter without slowing down the AI bots at all.
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- throwCPjuh9kR 2y agoI don't know about the implementation details, but there are a lot of cryptocurrency proof of work algorithms that requires a lot of memory access like Monero's RandomX. Those can't be realistically run on most underpowered devices.
- MBCook 2y agoProof of work still takes time. It will slow each individual requester down. Meaning for the same request rate they would need more hosts, which costs them more money.