- From: Roman Evstifeev <someuniquename@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 20:00:41 +0400
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-rww <public-rww@w3.org>, public-webid <public-webid@w3.org>
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a concept that has become popular lately in cryto (particularly > crypto currencies) which is called proof of work. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system > > The principle behind it is that you can use cryptography to make your public > key 'special' in some predefined way, in order to prove that it was a very > hard key to create. > > These special keys are considered valuable (indeed in cryto currencies you > can be rewarded financially for creating one) > > However the original idea of proof of work was an anti spam measure. > > I wonder if were start using proof of work public keys linked to identity on > the web, what possible formats could we use ... perhaps 6-10 leading 1's? What for? What is the usecase?
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