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marginalia_nu
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AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their n...
This is the original use-case for proof of work though. The idea of using proof of work to hinder spam dates back to 1997[1]
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash