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Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...!
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Gunnar Wolf |
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Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...! |
Date: |
Fri, 27 May 2016 13:54:16 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
Andrew Gallagher dijo [Fri, May 27, 2016 at 04:24:33PM +0100]:
> On 27/05/16 15:19, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> > we have to ask the question of who a PoW scheme
> > protects. It basically privileges those who have access to more compute
> > power, in an attempt to defend the network against malicious flooders.
>
> PoW is a demonstration that you're willing to waste precious resources
> performing a calculation of no conceivable utility. It's the IT
> equivalent of lighting a cigar with a hundred dollar bill.
Ah, but it looks so elegant!
/me ducks
- Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...!, (continued)
- Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...!, Robert J. Hansen, 2016/05/25
- Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...!, Pascal Levasseur, 2016/05/26
- Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...!, Moritz Wirth, 2016/05/26
- Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...!, Robert J. Hansen, 2016/05/26
- Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...!, Martin Papik, 2016/05/27
- Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...!, Pascal Levasseur, 2016/05/27
- Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...!, Kim Minh Kaplan, 2016/05/27
- Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...!, Andrew Gallagher, 2016/05/27
- Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...!, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, 2016/05/27
- Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...!, Andrew Gallagher, 2016/05/27
- Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...!,
Gunnar Wolf <=
- Re: [Sks-devel] Oh, Jeeez...!, Robert J. Hansen, 2016/05/27