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PoW? Really?
What else would they do?
I bet that commenter got triggered because cyrpto bad!!! There
Anyway, ain't pow like the only practical solution to fight bots?
Share Some conputer to enter... Seems fair if you are good faith single actor but very expensive if you are running a botnet campaign
No, in my eyes PoW is just a waste of resources. At least let them do some useful computation for the node.