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No Bullshit Bitcoin news@primal.net 2 years ago
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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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 agai...

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npub1yppm...7ccw 2 years ago
It appears to be a CPU based hashing algorithm. I hope it holds up to homosexual attackers in the government.
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Elephant in the root 2 years ago
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
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