Tor Launches Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services "We are officially introducing a proof-of-work (PoW) defense for onion services designed to prioritize verified network traffic as a deterrent against denial of service (DoS) attacks with the release of Tor 0.4.8."

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It appears to be a CPU based hashing algorithm. I hope it holds up to homosexual attackers in the government.
Without difficulty adjustment the attackers will just develop ASICs or other energy efficient devices inaccessible to normal users. Bitcoin fixes this.
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Uhu 2 years ago
Good idea, but it would be even better to collect a lightning fee. Bitcoin is crystallised pow and in this case the node would earn Smth instead of just burning the pow