On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 05:44, Mike Perry <mikepe...@torproject.org> wrote: > If you read the ticket, the design sketch does not require constant CPU > burning. You would only use the CPU until you built up a sufficient pile > of tokens, and you would only do that intermittently.
Not to raise unnecessary skepticism, but have proof-of-work ever been successfully deployed for anything in the real world (besides for proof-of-work per se — i.e., Bitcoin)? Did you try to estimate how much CPU work would get one a token once such system is deployed full-scale, with spammers (possibly with botnets) competing for resources? E.g., you can get a rule-of-thumb estimate by putting some dollar value on a token, and looking at the generic-CPU work required for an equivalent Bitcoin amount. Perhaps captchas might look more appealing after that. -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
