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You don’t need to spend $5000 to obtain the hash rate of a $5000 device on a rental basis. You may have heard of this thing called “the cloud”. Obtaining very h
by semiquaver 1mo ago
You don’t need to spend $5000 to obtain the hash rate of a $5000 device on a rental basis. You may have heard of this thing called “the cloud”. Obtaining very high hash rates is effectively free, largely as a side effect of the crypto bust.
Not sure why anyone would characterize these scrapers im general as all being fly-by-night operations that don’t have two cents to scrape together.
- dspillett 1mo agoAnd yet you have not addressed the point that many report that tricks like Anubis work. If they are so stupid an idea that they could never work, why do they seem to having the desired effect?
- Dylan16807 1mo agoA significant amount of the effect is everything outside the proof of work. Not the cost of hashing but the need to run the javascript that submits it. If you've seen anyone post a comparison of crawl rate versus difficulty, I'd love to see it. There's probably some difference but I want to know how much of the overall effect it is.
- semiquaver 1mo agoI never said the approach was so stupid it could never work. I just shared how it’s annoying and how I worked around my annoyance. An even stupider approach would work exactly as well or better, like a form saying “type the letter y in this box to continue”. The only benefit is as a road bump that makes the site in any way custom. The moment anyone you are defending against so much as looks at the mechanics of solving the challenge it completely falls apart.
- dspillett 1mo ago> I never said the approach was so stupid it could never work. In that case I have read too deeply between the lines/tone. Sorry for the somewhat accusatory assumption of your opinion's details.