The cost here only really impacts regular users, too. The type of users you actually want to block have budgets which easily allow for the compute needed anyways.
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cadekat@pawb.social 19 hours agoScarcity is what powers this type of challenge: you have to prove you spent a certain amount of electricity in exchange for access to the site, and because electricity isn’t free, this imposes a dollar cost on bots.
You could skip the detour through hashes/electricity and do something with a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency, and just pay for access. The site owner actually gets compensated instead of burning dead dinosaurs.
Obviously there are practical roadblocks to this today that a JavaScript proof-of-work challenge doesn’t face, but longer term…
natecox@programming.dev 19 hours ago
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
I think maybe they wouldn’t if they are trying to scale their operations to scanning through millions of sites and your site is just one of them
cadekat@pawb.social 17 hours ago
Yeah, exactly. A regular user isn’t going to notice an extra few cents on their electricity bill (boiling water costs more), but a data centre certainly will when you scale up.
artyom@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Maybe if the act of transferring crypto didn’t use a comparable or greater amount of energy…