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wolttamtoday at 2:21 PM3 repliesview on HN

I’ve been thinking of a proof-of-work scheme for accessing content where you effectively need to mine some crypto for the author, but, this idea might not fly today


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microtonaltoday at 2:30 PM

But that will be a hassle for human visitors as well. A web doing proof-of-work to browse, will be a disaster for phones with their limited batteries, etc.

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dparktoday at 3:55 PM

This is already a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis_(software)

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chiitoday at 2:41 PM

or you know, just charge for your content if you believe it to be valuable enough for the fee being charged.

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