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gnashxyztoday at 12:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

Relatedly, a precursor to the Bitcoin proof of work algorithm, Hashcash [0], was created to solve this same problem.

This feels like a cool modern iteration of it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash


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OisinMorantoday at 12:40 PM

Yeah, this gets reinvented every once in a while. I think Balaji’s earn.com was doing this for a while back around 2015/16

felixdoerptoday at 12:34 PM

super interesting - did not know!