Leah Neukirchen @ GPN24 on Nostr: Making websites compute hashes to deter scrapers is not Proof of Work, it's Proof of ...
Making websites compute hashes to deter scrapers is not Proof of Work, it's Proof of Waste. Can't we at least hand out valuable computations?
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2025-03-22 00:17:52 UTCEvent JSON
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