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Comment by tptacek | original | Creepy Crawlies
[−]tptacek · 2026-08-30 Sun 16:03 UTC · link
It's weird to believe data center based, Internet-scale scraping operations will be less able to allocate compute to proof-of-work challenges than individual users. This is design problem with things like Anubis: proof-of-work depends on a cost asymmetry between attacker and defender. But in scraping, both legitimate users and scrapers get the same value out of a transaction.