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It could at least solve the Nicole problem. Proof-of-work was invented for exactly this : reducing spam in inboxes
@Mubelotix @techtakes You know what else would solve the Nicole problem? Old-skool USENET style client-side killfiles circa 1990, applied to DMs—your inbox-equivalent.
tell me you've never dealt with human-facing network systems without telling me you've never dealt with human facing network systems
Hundreds if not thousands of users access the services I host in my home every fucking day. I'm sorry but PoW is a very basic subject in CS and you are the one showing your ignorance. Also, if you had participated in online security challenges like rootme, you would have seen it implemented and working
to quote the red ink on your last CS exam: Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about
oh yes, keep telling me how I don't know things, that's the stuff. straight into my veins! such a good, clever little poster!
arf arf arf
you are not tall enough for this ride, go have some candyfloss and throw some balls in holes
this user is far too informed and knowledgeable to lower himself to educating us peons, and has been guided elsewhere
Question is of spam or proof of work burns the planet faster and I feel like it would be the latter.
It does not work like that. The principle is that legitimate users all pay negligible cost, but a spammy user would have to pay so much it is just not possible. The spammy user would not even try, it discourages them
What kind of a cost is low enough that eight billion people can pay it for their legitimate communications without burning the planet too much, but also high enough that a spammer with a botnet won't bother to let other people's machines pay the cost?
I am so fucking tired of "just tie the PoW into every protocol interaction and every device! what do you mean old devices can't be updated? you're just afraid of the future!" fucking fans
chucklefucks coming along shouting "you don't know what you're talking about!" while having little fucking idea what the person they're engaging with actually does