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minus-squareMubelotix@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up70·1 day agoExactly. It’s called proof-of-work and was originally invented to reduce spam emails but was later used by Bitcoin to control its growth speed
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·15 hours agoIt’s funby that older captchas could be viewed as proof of work algorithms now because image recognition is so good. (From using captchas.)
minus-squareMubelotix@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-210 hours agoInteresting stance. I have bought many tens of thousand of captcha soves for legitimate reasons, and I have now completely lost faith in them
minus-squareRandomTester@lemmybefree.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·22 hours agoit wasn’t made for bitcoin originally? didn’t know that!
minus-square0xebfe@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·20 hours agoOriginally called hashcash: http://hashcash.org/
minus-squareRandomTester@lemmybefree.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·20 hours agoyou know it’s old when it doesn’t have ssl
Exactly. It’s called proof-of-work and was originally invented to reduce spam emails but was later used by Bitcoin to control its growth speed
It’s funby that older captchas could be viewed as proof of work algorithms now because image recognition is so good. (From using captchas.)
Interesting stance. I have bought many tens of thousand of captcha soves for legitimate reasons, and I have now completely lost faith in them
it wasn’t made for bitcoin originally? didn’t know that!
Originally called hashcash: http://hashcash.org/
you know it’s old when it doesn’t have ssl
TIL