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Hashcash is broken for any situation like this. The amount of hashcash time needed to thwart spam is higher than any user is willing to wait for, doing proof of
by 13 11y ago
Hashcash is broken for any situation like this. The amount of hashcash time needed to thwart spam is higher than any user is willing to wait for, doing proof of work on a phone. Plus, spammers normally have their own Cloud Computing to resort to, and it's cheaper than Amazon AWS.
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- zmanian 11y agoJust proposed as interim solution that is easy to implement and escapes the PII collection model. Blind signed auth tokens are way better but much more resource intensive to implement
- patcon 11y agoInteresting observation. I wonder if you could hide this work behind an approval period, much like waiting for a beta invite. When framed like this, it just builds anticipation, and the users doesn't necessarily need to know. But of course, this would most obviously involve a client-side component with access to system resources. Workable for a native android app, but perhaps not for desktop/browser...