It does not work like that. The principle is that legitimate users all pay negligible cost, but a spammy user would have to pay so much it is just not possible. The spammy user would not even try, it discourages them
What kind of a cost is low enough that eight billion people can pay it for their legitimate communications without burning the planet too much, but also high enough that a spammer with a botnet won’t bother to let other people’s machines pay the cost?
I am so fucking tired of “just tie the PoW into every protocol interaction and every device! what do you mean old devices can’t be updated? you’re just afraid of the future!” fucking fans
chucklefucks coming along shouting “you don’t know what you’re talking about!” while having little fucking idea what the person they’re engaging with actually does
It does not work like that. The principle is that legitimate users all pay negligible cost, but a spammy user would have to pay so much it is just not possible. The spammy user would not even try, it discourages them
What kind of a cost is low enough that eight billion people can pay it for their legitimate communications without burning the planet too much, but also high enough that a spammer with a botnet won’t bother to let other people’s machines pay the cost?
I am so fucking tired of “just tie the PoW into every protocol interaction and every device! what do you mean old devices can’t be updated? you’re just afraid of the future!” fucking fans
chucklefucks coming along shouting “you don’t know what you’re talking about!” while having little fucking idea what the person they’re engaging with actually does