Interesting discovery. This research sounds creepy and ill-advised, but my intuition suggests to me this is an innocent attempt to do something useful rather th

Interesting discovery. This research sounds creepy and ill-advised, but my intuition suggests to me this is an innocent attempt to do something useful rather than waste energy on a PoW algorithm. My intuition also tells me that if this project became popular enough, attackers would break the algorithm fairly easily and the project would just revert to a more conventional PoW algorithm that doesn't try to be smart.