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drum55yesterday at 3:39 PM1 replyview on HN

People tried this in 2013 or so, there's no point to it. Doing proof of work in javascript in a browser is so crushingly, pointlessly slow that there's no value at all. Some browsers also intentionally detect attempts to do proof of work and attempt to block it entirely.


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RobotToasteryesterday at 4:02 PM

> Some browsers also intentionally detect attempts to do proof of work and attempt to block it entirely.

Then they'd be blocking themselves from the website.

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