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cozzydyesterday at 9:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

I guess it could in principle be profitable for the website, not the client?


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xoscyesterday at 9:18 PM

unfortunately at that point it would be indistinguishable from running cryptojacking on your website

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TacticalCoderyesterday at 9:17 PM

Yup was thinking the same: make honest people pay $0.00001 when they visit the site (in electricity/compute), have the challenge made so that only the website wins a tiny something. Bleed the bots dry.

> This makes Anubis challenges use a memory-hard proof of work function (argon2id) instead of just a CPU hard one. It also means that the "hey Claude vibeslop me a CUDA Anubis solver" route is on its way to being fundamentally dead.

Nice.

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