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minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoWhat do you think PoW was created for. This is exactly the use case of PoW – to reduce malicious traffic. It works great!
minus-squareMubelotix@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 month agoThough if an attacker has an ASIC he can single-handedly dominate the whole pool of other users as ASICs are tremendously more efficient than CPUs
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoDepends on the hashing algorithm. Tor implements two, and neither are vulnerable to custom architectures like ASICs
What do you think PoW was created for. This is exactly the use case of PoW – to reduce malicious traffic. It works great!
Though if an attacker has an ASIC he can single-handedly dominate the whole pool of other users as ASICs are tremendously more efficient than CPUs
Depends on the hashing algorithm. Tor implements two, and neither are vulnerable to custom architectures like ASICs