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On top of all this, the fact that hashcash requires the browser to "work hard" means that any website using it will heat up my laptop and drain its battery unne
by na85 12y ago
On top of all this, the fact that hashcash requires the browser to "work hard" means that any website using it will heat up my laptop and drain its battery unnecessarily.
Why is that a good thing?
- brokentone 12y agoWould you rather type a captcha?
- beachwood23 12y agoYes, I would actually. I can do a CAPTCHA in about 5 seconds, whereas generating the proof-of-work took around 10 seconds on my computer.
- na85 12y agoAbsolutely.
- hippich 12y agoif you laptop solves this in 10 seconds and you need to post 10 messages a day, it is under 2 minutes of working hard for your laptop. I doubt it will make a dent in your battery life
- ozten 12y ago> and you need to post 10 messages a day Showing a captcha each time, for a repetitive task would be a horrible UX decision.
- hippich 12y agoI guess this would depend on how bad situation with spam is on specific site. Just like showing CAPTCHA only once you could do showing hashcash widget only once...
- na85 12y agoMy phone took 2 minutes to do the example one.
- abhinavk 12y agoIt'll also force people to upgrade their browsers.