alt Hacker NewsIt would be cool if the POW could be done ahead of time. That way I don't get stuck waiting while I'm working. Some type of credit/tokens that my browser could then spend.
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Or something that shadier websites could calculate ahead of time in your browser, then spend on your behalf.
I feel like Anubis is ironically speedrunning a lot of discoveries the crypto folks have already made several years ago...
Privacy Pass does something similar to what you describe: https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/privacy-pass/
I wonder if you could convince the Anubis author to implement x402 payments to bypass the PoW
Then we could implement an exchange, so that if you generate too much Anubis POW, you could exchange it with others.
We could link it to a site, you generate for HN, I for Reddit, but it so happens that you visited Reddit more and I HN, so we depleted our Anubis POW, so we could exchange some Reddit Anubis with some HN Anubis.
I'm working on this with a private prototype. I'm probably going to lean towards using a Service Worker (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...) to renew challenges at a reduced difficulty. Stay tuned!