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Carlos 2 years ago
PoW WoW v0.1 is out! It is a distributed marketplace for event PoW. Anyone can be a client, offering to buy PoW for their event. And anyone can be a provider, selling hashrate. A reputation system based on past trade behavior punishes dishonest clients or providers. For example, a client who creates requests but doesn't pay gets a bad reputation. Similarly, a provider who delivers a blinded solution which, after payment and unblinding, turns out to have less bits of PoW than asked by the client, also gets a negative reputation. There are 3 clients available: WASM, CLI, and a Gossip fork. A CLI provider is available for those who want to try out mining. Check it out at
PoW WoW: PoW WoW
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Carlos 2 years ago
Re your 1. "PoW as an anti-spam measure": I'm working on PoW WoW, a distributed marketplace for event PoW. Can be used by mobile clients who can't afford to mine themselves, allows miners to join or leave at will, and be paid non-custodially over LN. It has Rust libraries for clients and providers, but I can add bindings for other languages too. View quoted note →
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arkinox arkinox@team.fanfares.io 10 months ago
This is great! I wanted to build something like this for ONOSENDAI but you literally did it. Can't wait to dive into it more. I'd probably run my own instance on more powerful hardware just to power my cyberspace actions. I'm assuming you would be able to send realtime requests to your own powwow instance?
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