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No, I understand. I WANT it to be real time. I don’t want it to be offloaded. You don’t need to worry about double spending or any of the privacy issues that c
by solid_fuel 2y ago
No, I understand. I WANT it to be real time. I don’t want it to be offloaded.
You don’t need to worry about double spending or any of the privacy issues that come with a blockchain when the work is done real time. I know exactly how much work is being done on the server per request with this solution - one hash. There is no need to crawl through a block chain, or submit a transaction, or wait for an external system to catch up.
I want a solution to these crawling bots, not a distributed database. So why would I reach for a distributed database when this simple proof of work system works better, is more understandable, and doesn’t have external dependencies?
- abetusk 2y agoThere's a sentiment here that I think is valid and I'm struggling to tease out the best version of it, along with providing a valid response. I'll mention that, in an extreme case, one could provide a proof-of-work challenge that's directly tied to some cryptocurrency mining effort, so that the work/energy expenditure is captured by the one providing the challenge. This has the effect of the challenger giving money to the one providing the challenge, just in a real-time proof-of-work way. Since money is effectively being exchanged anyway, this punishes systems that don't allow up-front payments to do away with the page load delay.