I don't believe you can prove a computation is useful. That's the equivalent of the Halting Problem. Anyway HashCash isn't going to net anyone billions of dollars, so they can't afford to build data centers for it.
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npub1hk…jyuns
2025-10-18 04:05:39 UTC
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