Re: HTTP HashCash

čt 22. 5. 2025 v 15:41 odesílatel Chaals Nevile <chaals@fastmail.fm> napsal:

> If you want to create a competition for access, PoW might make sense. If
> you're interested in regulating who has access to content based on
> something other than auctioning it to the highest bidder, it seems like a
> very bad answer, especially given its generally bad side-effect of
> resource
> consumption.
>
> Credentials that are reliably issued, effectively revoked, and match the
> actual access goals, seem like a better approach to explore for the use
> case.
>

Just to note, PoW isn't always about auctioning access.

Hashcash-style use can help reduce spam or abuse without needing
credentials, especially for anonymous or low-friction cases.

Might be worth seeing it as one tool among many, rather than an either/or...