I keep waiting for someone trying to use the web on an older computer who's sitting there for 30 seconds every time they click another search result. Or a battery-powered device that now uses a lot of inefficient high frequency clock cycles to get these computations out of the way
But so far I've heard nobody! And they've been fast on my phone. Does this really keep bots out? I'm quite surprised in both directions (how little computation apparently already helps and how few people run into significant issues)
When this came up 15 years ago (when PoW was hyping due to Bitcoin and Litecoin) the conversation was certainly different than how people regard this today. Now we just need an email version of it and I'm curious if mass spam becomes a thing of the past as well
I keep waiting for someone trying to use the web on an older computer who's sitting there for 30 seconds every time they click another search result. Or a battery-powered device that now uses a lot of inefficient high frequency clock cycles to get these computations out of the way
But so far I've heard nobody! And they've been fast on my phone. Does this really keep bots out? I'm quite surprised in both directions (how little computation apparently already helps and how few people run into significant issues)
When this came up 15 years ago (when PoW was hyping due to Bitcoin and Litecoin) the conversation was certainly different than how people regard this today. Now we just need an email version of it and I'm curious if mass spam becomes a thing of the past as well