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Hashcash is broken for any situation like this.

Hashcash is broken for any situation like this. The amount of hashcash time needed to thwart spam is higher than any user is willing to wait for, doing proof of work on a phone. Plus, spammers normally have their own Cloud Computing to resort to, and it's cheaper than Amazon AWS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet

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Hashcash is broken for any situation like this.

13Apr 27, 2015, 8:00 PM

Hashcash is broken for any situation like this. The amount of hashcash time needed to thwart spam is higher than any user is willing to wait for, doing proof of work on a phone. Plus, spammers normally have their own Cloud Computing to resort to, and it's cheaper than Amazon AWS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet

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