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Every signup form on the internet makes real people prove they aint robots. Then the robots solve it anyway with a two dollar solver farm. So we flipped it. captcha.powforge.dev charges the bots instead of the humans. You pass with a tiny Lightning payment or a bit of proof-of-work. Humans click through once. Bots pay per request til it stops being worth their while. Live now, free to kick the tires.
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